Advice needed for basic setup for home user

Setup: Running openindian/hipster updated as of Aug 20 '17 Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram I used cvs for several yrs before moving to git about yr ago. In both cases I've barely scratched the surface with my usage. I run 5-10 vbox vms' on this host with various

Re: Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another

Stefan Beller writes: [...] > Ah. Sorry for confusing even more. > By pointing out the options for git-diff, I just wanted to point out that > such a mechanism ("rename/copy detection") exists. [...] >> What am I missing? >> > >

Re: Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another

Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: [...] Harry wrote: >> Here are two that are at least kind of similar but would never be seen >> as the same: >> >> < 192.168.1.43

Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another

I ran into a line in git commit ouput I had not see before #copied: d0/etc/hosts -> misc/old-readerHOSTvcs-files/etc/hosts So googling I learned that this might happen if git thinks the two files are the same. I was pretty sure they were not the same so checked them> diff d0/etc/host

Re: [noob] is this normal behavior

Igor Djordjevic writes: [...] snipped detailed reply [To Anyone who lands here on a search: Please read Igor D's full answer in this thread... ] > Just pay attention that untracked files are not affected, you still > need to add them first to tell Git to start

Re: How to `git status' without scrambling modified with new, etc

Samuel Lijin writes: > You can use `git status -s` and match on the modification type (M > corresponds to modified, A to new files). See the man page for more > details on the interface. ahh yes. Just the ticket thanks

[noob] is this normal behavior

Setup: Running openindiana (hipster) a solaris 11 open source branch git 2.12.2 I've recently moved from mercurial to git mainly because git appears to receive the most development and the heaviest use. I'm using git with hold over behavior developed from my time using cvs long

How to `git status' without scrambling modified with new, etc

This is probably what everyone sees: When I run `git status'; I see modified and newfiles scrambled together Is there a trick or technique to make that output show each category separately? Or do folks just a throw a `sort' in there (git status|sort) and lose the color ouput?