[git-users] Trying to merge a hotfix into master, what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-20 Thread Michael
I'm trying to merge a hotfix into the master branch. What am I doing wrong? (on master): keybounceMBP:Finite-Fluids michael$ git merge ReleaseAlpha40..HotFixFluidLost merge: ReleaseAlpha40..HotFixFluidLost - not something we can merge What's going on: ReleaseAlpha40 and master have a common ances

[git-users] Finding which files were added after applying a given patch

2015-11-20 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi everyone, I have a script for automating generation of git patch files. For this I need to know which files were changed and which were added after applying a given patch, immediately after applying it finished succesfully. Now, I can find out which files were changed as a result of applying

Re: [git-users] Re: How to make pack remote repository on every push?

2015-11-20 Thread Gergely Polonkai
Hello, You may want to play with gc.pruneexpire. From man git-config: gc.pruneexpire >When git gc is run, it will call prune --expire 2.weeks.ago. >Override the grace period with this config variable. The value >"now" may be used to disable this grace pe

[git-users] Re: How to handle a longrunning branch

2015-11-20 Thread Steinar Bang
> mike : > I have had a branch, feature_xyz, for a long time ( yes I know I should not > but it was not my call). Problem is I have not updated it with changes from > master. So I started to do a regular rebase ( i want to keep history): > git fetch origin master > git rebase origin/master

[git-users] Re: How to make pack remote repository on every push?

2015-11-20 Thread Steinar Bang
> Igor Deyashkin : > What are you expect from git gc in your case? I didn't *expect* anyhing, but what I *hoped* for was a way for git to compress the repository as much as it could on each push. Ie. compress it as much as what I get when I cd into the bare repo on the remote and do a git g