[Flightgear-devel] dumb git question

2010-06-22 Thread Curtis Olson
Here's a dumb git question. Previously with cvs or svn, if I inadvertently removed a file, or screwed up a file really badly and just wanted to start clean with the repository version, I could just remove the file and run cvs/svn update and the missing file would be noticed, and the system would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dumb git question

2010-06-22 Thread Oliver Thurau
: [Flightgear-devel] dumb git question Here's a dumb git question. Previously with cvs or svn, if I inadvertently removed a file, or screwed up a file really badly and just wanted to start clean with the repository version, I could just remove the file and run cvs/svn update and the missing file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dumb git question

2010-06-22 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: Here's a dumb git question. Previously with cvs or svn, if I inadvertently removed a file, or screwed up a file really badly and just wanted to start clean with the repository version, I could just remove the file and run cvs/svn update and the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dumb git question

2010-06-22 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 15:20 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: Here's a dumb git question. Previously with cvs or svn, if I inadvertently removed a file, or screwed up a file really badly and just wanted to start clean with the repository version, I could just remove the file and run cvs/svn

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dumb git question

2010-06-22 Thread Andy Ross
Thought I'd chime in here, as I've been going through the git transition pains myself recently, and the other answers have been all about the what and not the why of the task. Git adds an extra level of indirection that you're not used to: the cvs/svn model of the world had only one repository.