Re: [git-users] A plead for more meaningful syntax

2013-02-02 Thread Tristan Stanic
You can ask anyone to turn on the light by just saying "Turn the light on", you will get the job done much faster than if you give a lecture about electricity and light bulb technology. Although understanding the underlying physics would make a lot of good, the simple and direct solution is mor

Re: [git-users] A plead for more meaningful syntax

2013-02-02 Thread Les Nightingill
I think every one of us has asked this same question at some point early in our work with git. There have been many attempts to sweeten the syntax with sugar. But mostly we struggle through the abominable syntax and love git for it's great power and flexibility. It will help you a lot with the

[git-users] A plead for more meaningful syntax

2013-02-02 Thread Tristan Stanic
Hi, I am learning Git at the moment. Very novice level. Just learn from this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4850717/how-to-cancel-a-local-git-commit That to cancel the last local commit, you must type: *git reset --soft HEAD^ *. I would think that s simple syntax like: *git undo-comm

[git-users] Re: Rebasing problems

2013-02-02 Thread Blind
a very quick warning to my previous post: as they say, "don't do this at home kids", it is completely illegal and will brake the whole rabase, it was just to demonstrate that the S' commit was wrongly rebuilt by the rebase. Blind. 02 февруари 2013, събота, 17:11:14 UTC+2, Blind написа: > > yo

[git-users] Re: Rebasing problems

2013-02-02 Thread Blind
you can try the same thing, but with adding --interactive to your "$ git rebase --preserve-merges" invocation. so he will open-up your default editor with the following text: pick (some SHA1) Commit P pick (...) Commit Q pick (...) Commit R pick (...) Commit S pick (...) Commit T (note that the

[git-users] Re: Using Git Notes inside Gerrit Hooks

2013-02-02 Thread Blind
exit code 128 normally means that you are not inside a git repo directory. anyway, if you mention "refs/notes", then it is supposed that you fave a .git/refs accessible somewhere (in the current dir or upstairs). 02 февруари 2013, събота, 02:45:40 UTC+2, krishna chaitanya kurnala написа: > > Hel