Hi, When I copy files from my Linux machine to my external HDD (FAT format), 'git status' shows that files are modified. I guess that occurs because of the file system difference. I formatted the external HDD with FAT to share it with my Mac, Windows, and Linux. How can I solve this problem? Thanks. Sam ...
After creating a branch with --track (or leaving the default, or --notrack), you later wish to be reminded of what a branch is tracking. Is there a way, other than searching through the .git/config file, to display what a branch is tracking? ...
I'm currently setting up a development environment at home to learn technologies I won't have a change to use at work. I have setup msysgit on my local machine and I have a Virtual PC with cruise Control.Net installed. I'm the only developer on this project and I don't want to use a hosted git repository, as I'm doing this for a friend a...
I really need to get started with source control because I'm going absolutely crazy keeping track of my code and modifications as it is. I'm a single developer on Windows. I use Eclipse for most of my development. Some of my projects are saved in wamp/www folder. Other non-PHP projects are in one or more Eclipse workspaces. I don't wor...
I have been using git for half a year or so and I don't know whether I am using git fully. First of all, I have been experimenting with dropbox and I feel that if I can incorporate it into my work flow, it would be really great since dropbox is pretty convenient. I have a desktop, and a laptop. Both have dropbox. I initialized my dr...
Is it possible to set Git up so that I can use the three-way compare in KDiff3? I have two branches that are far too different to auto-merge them, I simply have to check each merge point and I think the best way would be to check out the branch I want the changes from the other branch and say git difftool HEAD_OF_OTHER_BRANCH -- . An...
I need to keep my development trees in sync on different computers, with no network connection between them. We have a central git repository, and I normally work on my own clone on my office computer. Sometimes I need to do some development on another computer, which is never connected to the office network. None of the computers are e...
We have to keep 2 product versions. Now, some changes in each version have to be backported to another version. In SVN, if I made "change" to version 1, I merge this revision to version 2 and give comment like: "Merged 'change' from v1". This is awkward in many ways. Even worse if I merge several changes. Can git help me to have singl...
I have heard it is good practice to use some kind of document management system to keep track of different versions of your code/documents for school/work etc. I am still a student so my repository would just be local to my machine. I'm looking for some advice to get started/get in the habit of doing so. Im using OSX. What is the best/ea...
Is there a way to see what would be pushed if you did a git push command? What I'm picturing is something like the "Files Changed" tab of Github's "pull request" feature. When you issue a pull request, you can look and see what will be pulled in if they accept your pull request: Command line is OK, but I'd prefer some sort of GUI (lik...
I am aware of using .gitignore file to exclude some files being added, but i have several "config.php" files in source tree and I need to exclude only one, located in the root while other keep under revision control. What I should write into .gitignore to make this happen? ...
I started to version control a directory as follows. git init git add . Then, I made modifications, adding/deleting/changing files. After I'm done with that, I run git status to get the following results. # (use "git add/rm ..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working di...
With 'git log', I get a list of commits that I have made so far. commit f5c5cac0033439c17ebf905d4391dc0705dbd5f1 Author: prosseek Date: Fri Sep 3 14:36:59 2010 -0500 Added and modified the files. commit c14809fafb08b9e96ff2879999ba8c807d10fb07 Author: prosseek Date: Tue Aug 31 08:59:32 2010 -0500 Just simple test for ...
Good day I need to find a way to find the full path of changed files when reported after a git merge. Git generally puts a .../rest/of/path/to/the/file if the path is too long. But I am trying to parse it, and depending on the location of the file I want to be able to decide a suitable action while building (writing building scripts) Is ...
We're thinking of bringing in a couple of specialists for short-term projects. I'm trying to figure out how to allow them to effectively develop against our code base without releasing the whole code base to them. Each project has well defined areas they need access to; primarily our main models, together with specific pieces of our app...
I think both the 'git reset' and 'git checkout' are the same in the sense that I go back to a specific commit. What's the difference between the two? I'm a little bit confused, as the svn only has 'svn co' to revert the commit. ADDED The following diagram from http://marklodato.github.com/visual-git-guide/ gives pretty simple idea wha...
I know that git provides the 'git rm' and 'git mv' to remove/move files or directories. But, I can't see the practical use case for this. Normally, I just mv or rm the files or whatever in the command line, and after I'm done with all the necessary actions, I can just run 'git add -u' and 'git add .', as I asked and got answers in here...
How to use BeyondCompare from "git mergetool" in cygwin? ...
I have a system setup like this: http://joemaller.com/990/a-web-focused-git-workflow/ However no matter how I configure the shell environment (i.e. GIT_DIR and PWD) the git-pull command does NOT run when called by the hook. Literally there is NO output whatsoever. My post-update looks like: #!/bin/sh /git/Lunch.git/lunch-receive ...
If I run 'git branch -d XYZ' to delete branch 'XYZ', is there a way to recover the branch. Or, in other words, is there a way to go back as if I didn't run the branch delete command? ...