Re: [git-users] Re: Documentation discrepancy

2012-06-25 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:46:03 -0700 (PDT) Git User usv299792...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to everyone. Just one more thing: If we could exclude that `git add file' part from `git commit file', we would get the desired behavior, wouldn't we? It seems to me like `git commit --staget file' is a

[git-users] Urgent: Issue with GIT ...

2012-06-25 Thread Guru
Hi, I am Guruprasad from Bangalore, India working for HP. I am very much new to git and trying to establish a DVCS in my workstation. I am facing few problems please help me out. below i am giving my setup and the things i have done till now. 1) I have 2 Linux box (A and B). GIT installed in

[git-users] Re: Urgent: Issue with GIT ...

2012-06-25 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
Hi, The normal distributed workflow is to push to a *bare** *repository, that both A and B can read from. A and B are both *non-bare* repositories, and it doesn't make sense to push to a non-bare repository. Consider you had a central repository called origin. Then you could push to it from

[git-users] Re: import multiple modules from cvs

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Haggerty
On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:56:23 PM UTC+2, Amir wrote: In the CVS we currently have 4 modules but in the new git I want to create 1 Master with 4 modules under it, I was trying to work with cvsimport but I don’t know how to make it happen and all my trials failed. If you use cvs2git [1]

[git-users] fatal: HTTP request failed

2012-06-25 Thread Harry
Hi, I installed git on ubuntu linux using apt-get install git-core my git version is 1.7.1 However when I try to clone the repo, I get ubuntu@ip-10-252-25-149:/tmp$ git clone https://github.com/MoGro/mogro-backend.git Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/mogro-backend/.git/ error: while

Re: [git-users] fatal: HTTP request failed

2012-06-25 Thread Harlan H. Bloom
Hi Harry, I installed git on Ubuntu 11.10, no previous git install. The version installed was 1.7.5.4. I wasn't able to access the site you listed because of lack of proper username and password. I was however, able to clone a project to my /tmp directory from Sourceforge.net. I'm not sure

[git-users] how to find out if a file will be text or binary

2012-06-25 Thread jjm
In the documentation for the *text* attribute, it says If git decides that the content is text Is there a way, for any given file in the working area and/or index and/or repository, to find out what Git's decision is: whether the content of the file is text or binary? Thanks. -- You

[git-users] Re: how to find out if a file will be text or binary

2012-06-25 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
I believe Git does not do any particular handling on how it *stores *binary files. A blob is a blob, whether it's text or binary. However, there are some differences when handling binary files: - Git avoids doing any

Re: [git-users] Re: Documentation discrepancy

2012-06-25 Thread Git User
Thanks again. It seems I didn't express myself clearly. OK, let me elaborate on specific examples: *Scenario 1:* *$ cata.txt * alpha *$ git add a.txt * *$ cata.txt * beta *$ git st * # On branch master # Changes to be committed: # (use git reset HEAD file... to unstage) #