Re: [git-users] Re: Merging two repositories with history and tags/branches

2013-08-16 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Sam Roberts" On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: What I would like to know is: Is this at all possible? If so, can someone point me in the right direction? git replace: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6800692/how-do-git-grafts-and-replace-differ-are-

Re: [git-users] Git's use of "less"

2013-08-16 Thread David
On 17 August 2013 02:01, Dale R. Worley wrote: > After using "git diff", I believe that Git (1.7.7.6) uses "less" by > default if there is no explicit pager specification (via $PAGER or > Git's core.pager). > > 1) Am I correct? > > 2) I dislike defaulting to using a pager (partly because I dislike

Re: [git-users] Re: Merging two repositories with history and tags/branches

2013-08-16 Thread Sam Roberts
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: >> >> What I would like to know is: >> >> Is this at all possible? >> If so, can someone point me in the right direction? git replace: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6800692/how-do-git-grafts-and-replace-differ-are-grafts-now-d

Re: [git-users] Hindi Translation of ProGit book

2013-08-16 Thread Philip Oakley
Debashish, There is also the Git internationalization excercise coordinated by Jiang Xin with his repo at http://github.com/git-l10n/git-po You can also email Scott Chacon if you want to get more details about contributing directly to the book. There are some instructions some where but find

Re: [git-users] Branch level authentication

2013-08-16 Thread Jimit Modi
Thanks. Will look at it and update. -- Jim(y || it) On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Gergely Polonkai wrote: > Hello, > > git itself is not capable of authentication and authorization, you will > need a separate software for that. I personally use gitosis, but many > others exist out there. T

Re: [git-users] Git's use of "less"

2013-08-16 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:01:32 -0400 wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) wrote: > After using "git diff", I believe that Git (1.7.7.6) uses "less" by > default if there is no explicit pager specification (via $PAGER or > Git's core.pager). > > 1) Am I correct? Yes. > 2) I dislike defaulting to u

[git-users] "git diff" errors

2013-08-16 Thread Dale R. Worley
Using Git (1.7.7.6), it appears that if I run "git diff" in a directory that is not part of a Git working copy, it produces this error message: $ git diff usage: git diff [--no-index] $ 1) This message doesn't tell the user what went wrong. (Indeed, invoking "git diff" with no arg

[git-users] Git's use of "less"

2013-08-16 Thread Dale R. Worley
After using "git diff", I believe that Git (1.7.7.6) uses "less" by default if there is no explicit pager specification (via $PAGER or Git's core.pager). 1) Am I correct? 2) I dislike defaulting to using a pager (partly because I dislike "less" in particular). 3) In any case, using a pager by de

Re: [git-users] Branch level authentication

2013-08-16 Thread Gergely Polonkai
Hello, git itself is not capable of authentication and authorization, you will need a separate software for that. I personally use gitosis, but many others exist out there. This kind of software is needed only on the "server" side, clients can still use good old git client. Best, Gergely On 16 Au