[git-users] Git Can't push a link file into remote repo?

2012-09-26 Thread Sean
HI, All: I am a recently setup a git server on mac os ,meanwhile I use a git client on ubuntu to do interaction with this git server. I have a code directory(it's very large ,about 1G ) and I did the following commands to push it to server side: 1. cd ~/test 2. git i

[git-users] git can't push a specific link file to the remote server??

2012-09-26 Thread Sean
HI, All: I am a recently setup a git server on mac os ,meanwhile I use a git client on ubuntu to do interaction with this git server. I have a code directory(it's very large ,about 1G ) and I did the following commands to push it to server side: 1. cd ~/test 2. git i

Re: [git-users] avoid pulling binaries

2012-09-26 Thread Angelo Borsotti
Hi Konstantin, I have got your suggestion, and done the following: - created a topic branch - forked a develop branch from it - done all the development work, several commits saving all files, sources and binaries - git checkout topic - git merge --squash --no-commit develop (this

[git-users] Best way to Migrate SVN with Versioned Externs into GIT with Subprojects

2012-09-26 Thread Gadget/Steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, We have a large project with several sub-projects all SVN with several thousand commits, branches, tags, etc., and to allow the development of the sub-projects to proceed with different teams our main project references them as externs at fi

Re: [git-users] avoid pulling binaries

2012-09-26 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:53:08 +0200 Angelo Borsotti wrote: [...] >- created a topic branch >- forked a develop branch from it >- done all the development work, several commits saving all files, > sources and binaries >- git checkout topic >- git merge --squash --no-commit devel

[git-users] Merge and modification strategy

2012-09-26 Thread Salah
I am doing a research on continuous integration process. I am reading some topics from the book available online and understood the Clone-Commit-Fetch -Push process. I have a little question though: Some team developers that I encountered would like to be able to see which files (codes) are modif

Re: [git-users] avoid pulling binaries

2012-09-26 Thread Angelo Borsotti
Hi Konstantin, the idea of using merge --squash comes from: 1. the need to have a clean history of the changes: the developer that implements something (e.g. a feature or a bugfix) on a topic branch could have done it creating several commits in her/his development branch, commit

Re: [git-users] Merge and modification strategy

2012-09-26 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Salah wrote: [...] > I have a little question though: Some team developers that I > encountered would like to be able to see which files (codes) are > modified in the present > time locally. They told me that in their projects, some codes have to > be mod

[git-users] Re: Merge and modification strategy

2012-09-26 Thread maxhodges
Hi Salah, It sounds like your team might be more familiar with something line Visual SourceSafe. In the VSS model, VSS holds keep your code and one person can check it out at a time. The VSS discourages multiple uses from accessing the same file simultaneously. In Git anyone with access to th

[git-users] Re: Merge and modification strategy

2012-09-26 Thread maxhodges
Hi Salah, It sounds like your team might be more familiar with something like Visual SourceSafe. In the VSS model, VSS keeps your code, and one person can check-it-out at a time. VSS discourages multiple users from accessing the same file simultaneously. In Git anyone with access to the repos

Re: [git-users] Re: Merge and modification strategy

2012-09-26 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:33:43 -0700 (PDT) maxhodges wrote: [...] > The problem you are probably worried about if when two users make > changes to the exact same code; that is, when two developers edit the > same lines of code in the same source file. It's still possible to > merge the files, but G

Re: [git-users] Re: Merge and modification strategy

2012-09-26 Thread Max Hodges
Yes I don't disagree: that notion of locking a file makes no sense in Git. I just wanted to emphasis the importance for teams to stay in communication if they want to reduce any annoying conflicts during merging because of this feature. Just like when you're renovating a house, a little communicati

Re: [git-users] Re: Merge and modification strategy

2012-09-26 Thread Gadget/Steve
On 26/09/2012 6:51 PM, Max Hodges wrote: > Yes I don't disagree: that notion of locking a file makes no sense in Git. I > just wanted to emphasis the importance for teams to stay in communication if they want to reduce any annoying conflicts during merging because of this feature. Just like when y

Re: [git-users] Re: Merge and modification strategy

2012-09-26 Thread Max Hodges
Do you have any information of delegates and Git? I haven't come across that feature yet. Could be useful to OP. On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Gadget/Steve wrote: > On 26/09/2012 6:51 PM, Max Hodges wrote: > > Yes I don't disagree: that notion of locking a file makes no sense in > Git. I just

Re: [git-users] Re: Merge and modification strategy

2012-09-26 Thread Gadget/Steve
On 26/09/2012 8:14 PM, Max Hodges wrote: > Do you have any information of delegates and Git? I haven't come across that > feature yet. Could be useful to OP. Take a look at http://git-scm.com/book/en/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows specifically the Dictator - Lieutenant workflow. -- You re