On 2020-10-25, at 5:25 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
> Aren't you using Git in a way it wasn't supposed to be used? ;-)
> Git is indeed a content-addressable filesystem in its core
"In a way it wasn't supposed to be used" implies that there is a way it was
supposed to be used. If there is
On 2020-10-25, at 6:05 AM, Anca Jain wrote:
> Hi! I am a beginner to Git. I opened a folder located on my Desktop with “Git
> Bash Here”. I run “git add.” without entering “git init” first. Now almost
> all of my computer files (the ones on the Desktop) are in the “Untracked
> files”
Hi skobo00,
I believe there is some work on something like this (accessing remote blobs
& trees) for the --sparse and --partial clones, along with Microsoft's Git
Virtual File System (I think it has a new, but similar, name) all of which
are looking at the problem of very large repositories
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 06:49:56AM -0700, Philip Oakley wrote:
[...]
> The first part is that your Git stores your versioned files locally, and it
> stores them inside a sub-directory called `.git`. That `.git' file is
> created when you either do the `git init` command, or clone another
>
You have my sympathy. Git is (was) designed by and for the developers of
the Linux operating system, and operates with a quite different philosophy
to old style 'version control' systems. This can lead to a lot of initial
difficulty while you get your head around the new ideas.
The first part
Hi! I am a beginner to Git. I opened a folder located on my Desktop with
“Git Bash Here”. I run “git add.” without entering “git init” first. Now
almost all of my computer files (the ones on the Desktop) are in the
“Untracked files” folder.
I already ran “git -r - -rm cached” but Git deleted
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 09:39:01PM -0700, 'skobo002 University of Minnesota'
via Git for human beings wrote:
> I'm looking to see if there's a feature in any version of git to be able to
> ask the server to list all blob ids for a particular commit. So far, from
> what I've seen it doesn't
