Re: [git-users] Contributing to Git- Will it affect the Git I use in my projects?

2019-12-10 Thread Michael
On 2019-12-10, at 12:54 PM, Nirmal Khedkar wrote: > Hi, I'm Nirmal Khedkar, student from India. > > I wish to be a long-term contributer for Git and am a GSoC 2020 aspirant too. > I'd love to contribute to Git because I love it and (in my view), its the > mother of all FOSS projects out

Re: [git-users] Keeping history of file after renaming

2019-12-10 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi Christina, Unfortunately (or fortunately?) it's not going to happen. A long while ago there was a sharply worded post by Linus [1], who wrote Git, for Linux, about why and how a VCS should work, and it did not require the user to have to tell the computer about 'filenames'. The important

Re: [git-users] Does Git have a command like "git update latest " to update it self ?

2019-12-10 Thread Nirmal Khedkar
Anything for Linux? On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 3:01:35 PM UTC+5:30, neverasimov wrote: > > git update-git-for-windows > > Attention Point: you must launch GiT shell with Administrative rights, so > the system will close it and will download the latest version automatically > running the

[git-users] Contributing to Git- Will it affect the Git I use in my projects?

2019-12-10 Thread Nirmal Khedkar
Hi, I'm Nirmal Khedkar, student from India. I wish to be a long-term contributer for Git and am a GSoC 2020 aspirant too. I'd love to contribute to Git because I love it and (in my view), its the mother of all FOSS projects out there, because most of them are built using Git. I wanted to know

[git-users] Keeping history of file after renaming

2019-12-10 Thread Christina Zhou
Hello, I’m wondering about keeping the history of a file when you rename it. It seems like while working on a team, a lot of reasonable requests to change filenames are made, but I don’t want to lose my history simply because I renamed it. According to this post