[git-users] Re: Extend .gitignore to support setting of a file size limit so that all files over a certain size will by automatically ignored

2015-05-10 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 11:53:02 AM UTC+2, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: If you still can justify why this would be a valuable feature for a noteworthy amount of Git users, the place to suggest new features is the main Git mailing list: https://gist.github.com/tfnico/4441562 Please

Re: [git-users] How do you switch head location without changing files?

2015-05-10 Thread Dale R. Worley
Michael keybou...@gmail.com writes: Lets say you've got files set up to commit to one point in the tree, but you're actually in a different location. How do you move where you are / where a commit will go, without altering the files? git reset --soft branch looks like the command that does

[git-users] Re: newbie downloading git

2015-05-10 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 2:14:36 AM UTC+2, Tricia Finkle wrote: Hi, I'm just getting started with github and git. I have tried to download git several times from the git-smc site, source forge and mirror sites. I install it and it says install successful, but then it is nowhere to be

Re: [git-users] Testing a file with lots of change chunks, one chunk at a time

2015-05-10 Thread Magnus Therning
On 9 May 2015 11:59 pm, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: So here's something that I'd like to do, and I'm wondering if Git is the right tool for this. I have a program's config file, that is broken up into a large number of sections. One of them is causing a problem. All of them have been

[git-users] Re: How do you switch head location without changing files?

2015-05-10 Thread Michael
Last question for tonight Lets say you've got files set up to commit to one point in the tree, but you're actually in a different location. How do you move where you are / where a commit will go, without altering the files? keybounceMBP:Loot++ michael$ git stash Saved working directory

[git-users] How do you switch head location without changing files?

2015-05-10 Thread Michael
Lets say you've got files set up to commit to one point in the tree, but you're actually in a different location. How do you move where you are / where a commit will go, without altering the files? How did I get here? 714 git checkout 4194 715 git tag -a baseChest -m Branch here for

[git-users] Re: How do you switch head location without changing files?

2015-05-10 Thread Michael
On 2015-05-09, at 11:03 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Lets say you've got files set up to commit to one point in the tree, but you're actually in a different location. How do you move where you are / where a commit will go, without altering the files? Alright, what happened here?

Re: [git-users] Re: Testing a file with lots of change chunks, one chunk at a time

2015-05-10 Thread Gergely Polonkai
Hello, how about using stash? git add -p (or use git gui) to add some lines you want to check, but don't commit git stash --keep-index do your tests. If everything is fine, make a commit git stash pop start over when you are finished, you will have several commits, so you may want to squash

Re: [git-users] Re: Testing a file with lots of change chunks, one chunk at a time

2015-05-10 Thread Michael
Keep index? -u? (reads manual) ... (reads git-clean) ... Definitely do NOT want -u :-). Git stash gives me the same issue, unless there is something I don't know about. In order to do the test, the checked out working copy needs to NOT have spare/untested chunks in it. In other words, I have