Re: [git-users] Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-01-27 Thread Michael
On 2017-01-27, at 12:57 AM, Philip Oakley wrote: > > It doesn't happen at my work, but one has to ask how / why have we dug the > hole so deep and wide that this gross merge conflict continues to repeat it > self as a regular corporate activity, and then how to get out of here/there > (and so

Re: [git-users] Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-01-27 Thread Stephen Morton
On Thursday, 26 January 2017 16:37:16 UTC-5, Magnus Therning wrote: > > > Stephen Morton > writes: > > > I'm looking for a git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots > > of conflicts requiring multiple people. I can make it work, and I > > understand git, but it all seems kind of awkwa

[git-users] Git as a photo backup tool

2017-01-27 Thread Carsten
Dear Git fellows, from plenty of web searches, I'm aware of Git's limitations regarding large binary files and Git LFS as a possible solution, but have not yet tried this myself, with or without LFS. Please allow me a question in the "opposite" direction: My goal is to obtain a very simple b

Re: [git-users] Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-01-27 Thread Philip Oakley
missing words... It (having files with only 100 lines) doesn't happen at my work (i.e. my work has the same problem, but it's seen as 'normal'), but one has to ask how / why have we dug the hole so deep and wide (we make bespoke hardware products, which is hard, and involves many disciplines,

Re: [git-users] Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-01-27 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi, Michael, The "100 lines" bit was just to ensure that folks got the idea that they should give a better indication of measurable scale. It doesn't happen at my work, but one has to ask how / why have we dug the hole so deep and wide that this gross merge conflict continues to repeat it se

[git-users] fatal error when diffing changed symlinks

2017-01-27 Thread Christophe Macabiau
Hi, with the commands below, you will get : > fatal: bad object > show : command returned error: 128 > I am using version 2.5.5 fedora 23 cd /tmp mkdir a cd a git init touch b ln -s b c git add . git commit -m 'fir