Nalin,
Somethings I wish to point out after extensive usage of GIT and I will
change the terminology a bit, by referring to folders as directories.
So for example if you have a folder $HOME/sample_repo, and you do,
vim x (write Hello)
vim y (write World)
you do
git add -A
and then you do
git commit -a -m Sample commit 1
Then you do
mkdir abc
git mv x abc/x
git mv y abc/y
git add -A
git commit -a -m Sample commit 2
Few things.
- git diff, git show etc are not stored in git, they are generated when
you execute the command. So essentially, currently git show HEAD will tell
you in last commit you deleted the file x (which included deleting the line
Hello)and created a new file with content Hello, same for y. Git diff,
doesn't have a file x in parent dir in this commit to find diff.
- Git doesn't store commits, it stores a snapshot. So for example if you
have 100 files and you make 100 commits, git stores 10,000 files (in a
compressed manner).
- Commits are never lost, and if you have checked out another branch and
can't see some commit, you can always do a git reflog.
As Shakthi said, if you tell us your complete scenario, we might suggest
something. I personally follow the following structure in my repo
directories.
$HOME/git_repo_co
.git
src/
extlib/
release/
etc/
notes/
Install
Makefile
Where release is git-ignored, and I spit my binaries into release/bin/
All source files are tracked int src/
May be this helps.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
--- On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com
wrote:
| Hence ; if my files were in:
| /sdkpath/samples/helloWorld
|
| only the folder helloWorld I made into git repos-- and repeatedly
|
| Now; I want to make changes to the parent tree also-- and commit the
entire
| parent tree to a GIT main repository-- eg: bitbucket.
\--
Firstly, you need to stop thinking in terms of files and folders.
Git doesn't track folders, but, content changes. Give us the big
picture. What is your workflow like, and why do you want to keep
moving the folders?
SK
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