[git-users] git tag and branch

2012-06-26 Thread jack sparrow
i have a list of tags in a git repo, how do i checkout a branch with that the tag version. I tried git branch tag-version this doesn't seem to be working.on the otherhand if i do git checkout tag-version-number, it is creating branch with no name, but the version seems to be correct. so what is

[git-users] Re: git status long time, gitignore

2012-06-30 Thread jack sparrow
On Jun 30, 1:13 am, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen tfn...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, June 29, 2012 2:29:59 PM UTC+2, jack sparrow wrote: On Jun 29, 3:36 pm, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen tfn...@gmail.com wrote: It is possible to place a .gitignore file in each directory, and Git will respect

[git-users] Re: git status long time, gitignore

2012-07-02 Thread jack sparrow
On Jul 2, 5:17 pm, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen tfn...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 2, 2012 6:40:02 AM UTC+2, jack sparrow wrote: i tried with git version 1.7.11.1, the issue still remains,  this is a build repo from my organisation, unfortunately i can't replicate the build

[git-users] git branching from tags

2012-07-02 Thread jack sparrow
From the git repo, i created a new branch1 with the existing tag tag1. i made some changes to a set of files, filea, fileb. If i run git status it shows that the filea and fileb are modified, so far good. Now i created another branch2 with the existing tag tag2. If i go toa filea, the file has the

[git-users] Re: git branching from tags

2012-07-02 Thread jack sparrow
On Jul 3, 9:51 am, PJ Weisberg pjweisb...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 2, 2012, jack sparrow dafs...@gmail.com wrote: From the git repo, i created a new branch1 with the existing tag tag1. i made some changes to a set of files, filea, fileb. If i run git status it shows that the filea

[git-users] Re: git status long time, gitignore

2012-07-03 Thread jack sparrow
On Jul 3, 11:27 am, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen tfn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 6:43:14 AM UTC+2, jack sparrow wrote: btw, what's the command to display the statistics like the number of objects tracked, no.of files in the repo etc ? Find number of objects with: git count

Re: [git-users] beginner branch question

2012-07-03 Thread jack sparrow
On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:00:23 PM UTC+5:30, Peter J Weisberg wrote: On Tuesday, June 26, 2012, Mostafa Alshrief mostafa_alshr...@yahoo.com wrote: If any of the uncommitted changes collide with files changed between branches, it will refuse to switch, and ask you to stash the changes

[git-users] Re: git status long time, gitignore

2012-07-10 Thread jack sparrow
On Jul 4, 1:27 pm, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen tfn...@gmail.com wrote: For comparison with a real file system, I just cloned the linux repositoryhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux, which has 300k commits, 2,5 million objects and nearly 40k files in the work tree, and there git status takes 1-3

[git-users] Re: git status long time, gitignore

2012-07-13 Thread jack sparrow
On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:35:11 AM UTC+5:30, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: ok still no luck, i've cloned the tree to my local hard disk running ubuntu in vmplayer on windows. i see the performance has become worse, now git status it is taking more than two minutes. this is a