Re: [git-users] Compiling Git on Linux..

2013-02-03 Thread Philip Oakley
On 03/02/13 23:43, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 05:34:00PM +, Philip Oakley wrote: I have recently got a spare laptop and installed Linux (I've been on Windows since 3.1, and stuff before that) , and I'm trying to get my head around some of the Git install issues on L

Re: [git-users] Re: Rebasing problems

2013-02-03 Thread Blind
Maybe I didn't express myself clear :-), sorry. I was speaking for "at this point", means if you stop (cut) your script at the point after adding "T" commit. before the rebasings ... ... after the rebase all goes wrong, shure. 03 февруари 2013, неделя, 21:52:54 UTC+2, Dale Worley написа: > > > F

Re: [git-users] Compiling Git on Linux..

2013-02-03 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 05:34:00PM +, Philip Oakley wrote: > I have recently got a spare laptop and installed Linux (I've been on > Windows since 3.1, and stuff before that) , and I'm trying to get my > head around some of the Git install issues on Linux. In particular > how to compile my own

Re: [git-users] Why Git is the stupid content tracker

2013-02-03 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 03:07:05PM -0800, Vicente Davila wrote: > Why GIT is much better tha SVN or CVS ? http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ (To all the other subscribers: the post is obvious trolling so I would advise to refrain from attempts to answer it constructively. I think the site I linke

[git-users] Why Git is the stupid content tracker

2013-02-03 Thread Vicente Davila
Hi Buddies Why GIT is much better tha SVN or CVS ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more opt

Re: [git-users] Compiling Git on Linux..

2013-02-03 Thread Philip Oakley
My missing step was the next step listed on the web page 'sudo make prefix=/usr/local all' This then did the business of populating the /usr/local/bin directory. Not really sure what extradifference it makes... - Original Message - From: Philip Oakley To: git-users@googlegroups.

Re: [git-users] Compiling Git on Linux..

2013-02-03 Thread John McKown
Thanks for the info, I'm not familiar with Ubuntu. On Feb 3, 2013 3:04 PM, "Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen" < traxpla...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 February 2013 18:56, John McKown > wrote: > > Ubuntu installed git into /usr/bin. You installed it into /usr/local/bin. > > Normally, /usr/bin is be

Re: [git-users] Compiling Git on Linux..

2013-02-03 Thread Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen
On 3 February 2013 18:56, John McKown wrote: > Ubuntu installed git into /usr/bin. You installed it into /usr/local/bin. > Normally, /usr/bin is before /usr/local/bin on the PATH. You can address > this by putting /usr/local/bin on the PATH before /usr/bin. Normally /usr/local/bin/ is _before_ /u

Re: [git-users] Compiling Git on Linux..

2013-02-03 Thread Philip Oakley
That was a useful start, I also realised I hadn't made sure I'd checked out the right working tree (my repo has both the Msysgit version and Junio's versio). The /usr/local/bin directory was empty, but at least I've now got a clue as to where to start looking, and I've now checked may path is se

Re: [git-users] Re: Rebasing problems

2013-02-03 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: Blind > > there is still nothing wrong here, > just use the "-m" option for the "git log" (same for diff-tree -m infact). If you go to the end of the new branch ("git checkout rebase", but at the end of the script, that is where you are already), and look at the file "file", you will see

Re: [git-users] Re: Rebasing problems

2013-02-03 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: "Philip Oakley" > > Is this what they call an 'Evil Merge' (git style) where the final > content was not in either of the original commits. > > In such cases it's hard to attribute which source commit contained > the data that is in the merge. > > It's as if an additional change was a

Re: [git-users] Re: Rebasing problems

2013-02-03 Thread Dale R. Worley
[git version 1.7.7.6] > From: Blind > > just use the "-m" option for the "git log" (same for diff-tree -m infact). Ugh. After the end of the procedure I posted, I executed "git log --graph -p -m". The output consists of: * commit 18786ae12592f49859509ee4b20bb83979f6ea2b | Author: Dal

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

2013-02-03 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: Tristan Stanic > > What is the reason the git developers use obscure syntax? This make the git > learning curve uselessly complex. My belief is that the system grew over time, with many people using it well before it reached the current state. Thus, whatever syntax was first establishe

Re: [git-users] Compiling Git on Linux..

2013-02-03 Thread John McKown
Ubuntu installed git into /usr/bin. You installed it into /usr/local/bin. Normally, /usr/bin is before /usr/local/bin on the PATH. You can address this by putting /usr/local/bin on the PATH before /usr/bin. Or you, if you want to replace git, use the normal Ubuntu method to uninstall git. This will

Re: [git-users] Compiling Git on Linux..

2013-02-03 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: Philip Oakley > > I then compiled with 'make prefix=/usr/local all' and got what I think > was a successful compile. I don't know how to compile Git, but the general practice in Unix builds is for "make" to *compile* the needed code, but only into files within the source/build directori

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

2013-02-03 Thread Les Nightingill
well, yes of course, I agree, if there's a friendly UI like a light switch, then there's no compelling reason to understand electricity. But if you have to use pliers and screwdrivers to turn on the lights it's good to understand the basics of electrical circuits. On Feb 2, 2013, at 10:39 PM, T

[git-users] Compiling Git on Linux..

2013-02-03 Thread Philip Oakley
I have recently got a spare laptop and installed Linux (I've been on Windows since 3.1, and stuff before that) , and I'm trying to get my head around some of the Git install issues on Linux. In particular how to compile my own version of Git, separate from the installed version. I've got Ubunt

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

2013-02-03 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Malusi Gcakasi" Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 10:09 AM On 2/3/2013 8:02 AM, Les Nightingill wrote: It will help you a lot with the syntax to really understand the architecture and the data model. I'm also pretty new to using git, can you recommend any good books/blogs/articles for l

[git-users] checkout version 2.6.30.10 from the official kernel git repository

2013-02-03 Thread martin mangard
Hello, I hope that this question is not off topic off this mailing list but I haven't found any better place to ask. I use various versions of the linux kernel which I compile from source. I decided to get rid of all my source tar-balls and clone the git repository of the linux kernel. http:

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

2013-02-03 Thread Philip Oakley
There have been a few threads on the subject in the git developers list [g...@vger.kernel.org] This one being possibly the most relevant http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/185825/focus=206910 Many of the design 'choices' are buried in history and are a mixture of needing to

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

2013-02-03 Thread Malusi Gcakasi
On 2/3/2013 8:02 AM, Les Nightingill wrote: It will help you a lot with the syntax to really understand the architecture and the data model. I'm also pretty new to using git, can you recommend any good books/blogs/articles for learning about the architecture and data model? -- Kind Regards M