Browsing through the git documentation, I can't see anything analogous to SVN's commit hooks or the "propset" features that can, say, update a version number or copyright notice within a file whenever it is committed to the repository. Are git users expected to write external scripts for this sort of functionality (which doesn't seem ou...
I know I can do most of this by hacking Trac and using Git hooks, but I was wondering if someone has / knows of something ready. Commenting on (and closing) tickets from commit messages would be nice, specially if the diff appears inline with the comment/closing remark. sha1 hashes should be auto-linked to gitweb/cigt/custom git browse...
What I have so far is #!/bin/sh php_syntax_check() { retval=0 for i in $(git-diff-index --name-only --cached HEAD -- | grep -e '\.php$'); do if [ -f $i ]; then output=$(php -l $i) retval=$? if [ $retval -gt 0 ]; then echo "===========================================================================...
Handling multiple merges onto branches in Subversion or CVS is just one of those things that has to be experienced. It is inordinately easier to keep track of branches and merges in Mercurial (and probably any other distributed system) but I don't know why. Does anyone else know? My question stems from the fact that with Mercurial you c...
My company is a small one where we would be using Git for version control. The main server will be local. But we do want an server where our local repo is kept online to give access to our clients so that they can have assurance that we are doing the right thing and to allow them to check out from there if needed. So if I simply wish t...
I have been hearing a lot of good things about DVCS systems, in particular about bazaar. Apart from the concept of distributed repository, I see two main advantages being touted: the merge is better automated, and the rename is handled right. Could someone please point me at some text explaining how exactly the improvements work? How do...
Which files should I include in .gitignore when using Git in conjunction with Xcode? ...
I've got a number of non-technical users that all share a set of project files. It would be ideal to have them using version control, but I think that both subversion and git are too technical for non-technical office staff. Is there any distributed source control software that would work well for normal people? ...
Hello/ My build-server already runs IIS to serve 80 and 443 port over TCP. I want to make centralized "push/pull" GIT repository available to all my team members over the Internet. So I should use HTTP or HTTPS. But I cannot use Apache because of IIS already hooking up listening sockets on 80 and 443 ports! Is there any way to publis...
If some changes are added to the index and there are some changes that are not added to the index, how do I discard the changes in my working copy that are not added to the index yet? ...
I'm not too sure what is going on here, but sometimes a particular file in my repository will change the case of it's name. e.g.,: before: File.h after: file.h I don't really care why this is happening, but this causes git to think it is a new file, and then I have to go and change the file name back. Can you just make git ignore case...
I'd really like to get our host to pull from our Git repository instead of uploading files manually, but it doesn't have Git installed. So is there a way to trick Subversion (which they do have) into checking out a Git repository? I think I already know the answer, namely bug my host to add Git and live with it until they do, but I tho...
What is the best way to get a log of commits on a branch since the time it was branched from the current branch? My solution so far is: git log $(git merge-base HEAD branch)..branch The documentation for git-diff indicates that "git diff A...B" is equivalent to "git diff $(git-merge-base A B) B". On the other hand, the documentation f...
How often should you use git-gc? The manual page simply says: Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good operating performance. Are there some commands to get some object counts to find out whether it's time to gc? ...
In Subversion you can specify a range of versions to get an aggregate view of a series of commits. Is this possible in git? If so, how? ...
I am trying to learn how to use git, and in all the tutorials they say that you can do git init git add . git commit but when I do that I get a big text file opened up, and none of the tutorials seem to address this, so I dont know what to do. Any help? ...
I'd like to script, preferably in rake, the following actions into a single command: Get the version of my local git repository. Git pull the latest code. Git diff from the version I extracted in step #1 to what is now in my local repository. In other words, I want to get the latest code form the central repository and immediately ge...
How do you remove untracked files from your git working copy? ...
I recently asked about keyword expansion in Git and I'm willing to accept the design not to really support this idea in Git. For better or worse, the project I'm working on at the moment requires SVN keyword expansion like this svn propset svn:keywords "Id" expl3.dtx to keep this string up-to-date: $Id: expl3.dtx 803 2008-09-11 14:...
I have a master and a dev branch, both pushed to github, I've cloned, pulled, fetched, but I remain unable to get anything other than the master branch back. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I have RTM any I'm getting no joy at all. ...