Re: [git-users] Retrieve all files of a group of projects as they were at a given date

2019-05-26 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi Michael, Just back from a vacation. On 24/05/2019 19:51, Michael wrote: On 2019-05-16, at 11:35 AM, Giorgio Forti wrote: If I commit ONE file Git builds a "zip" that contains the actual situation of ALL the 6 thousand of files in my C# solution? And if I check out this commithe file Git

Re: [git-users] Retrieve all files of a group of projects as they were at a given date

2019-05-24 Thread Michael
On 2019-05-16, at 11:35 AM, Giorgio Forti wrote: > If I commit ONE file Git builds a "zip" that contains the actual situation of > ALL the 6 thousand of files in my C# solution? > And if I check out this commithe file Git gives me back the complete > situation at that moment? > This would

Re: [git-users] Retrieve all files of a group of projects as they were at a given date

2019-05-18 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi Giorgi, Yes, when you commit, you will commit ALL your tracked files, not just the one you changed and 'add'ed. However, Git being smart, it is actually recording a tree of links to the file content in the object store, so it de-duplicates all the repetitions. Plus most of the

Re: [git-users] Retrieve all files of a group of projects as they were at a given date

2019-05-16 Thread Giorgio Forti
I see ONE repository for a lot of projects, but after your answer, I'm not sure ... how can i see if this is the real situation? Il giorno mercoledì 15 maggio 2019 17:46:23 UTC+2, Mikko Rantalainen ha scritto: > > > > On Wed, 15 May 2019, 14:04 Giorgio Forti, > wrote: > >> I'm relatively new

Re: [git-users] Retrieve all files of a group of projects as they were at a given date

2019-05-16 Thread Giorgio Forti
If I commit ONE file Git builds a "zip" that contains the actual situation of ALL the 6 thousand of files in my C# solution? And if I check out this commithe file Git gives me back the complete situation at that moment? This would be the solution. This can work with files committed only locally

Re: [git-users] Retrieve all files of a group of projects as they were at a given date

2019-05-15 Thread Philip Oakley
"little commits, sometimes a single file, " - Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, misunderstanding (I think) . Each commit is always all of the files. A complete 'zip' (metaphorically, because we don't use zip itself). When you checkout that commit you get them ALL back, including those that

Re: [git-users] Retrieve all files of a group of projects as they were at a given date

2019-05-15 Thread Mikko Rantalainen
On Wed, 15 May 2019, 14:04 Giorgio Forti, wrote: > I'm relatively new to Git. > I use it from inside Visual Studio 2013, for the normal operations: > commit, push ... > I used and know other similar products but not Git. > I'm searching in Git a feature I used in the past in another product. > >

Re: [git-users] Retrieve all files of a group of projects as they were at a given date

2019-05-15 Thread Giorgio Forti
I used Centralised VCS ... and now I don't have a unique BIG commit that is "the moment" i want, I have a lot of little commits, sometimes a single file, and I need to rebuild all the group of applicationa, applications, services, DLLs, at "that moment". >From your answer I understand that this

Re: [git-users] Retrieve all files of a group of projects as they were at a given date

2019-05-15 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi Georgio On 15/05/2019 12:04, Giorgio Forti wrote: I'm relatively new to Git. I use it from inside Visual Studio 2013, for the normal operations: commit, push ... I used and know other similar products but not Git. Similar being e.g. Mercurial (another Distributed version control system),

[git-users] Retrieve all files of a group of projects as they were at a given date

2019-05-15 Thread Giorgio Forti
I'm relatively new to Git. I use it from inside Visual Studio 2013, for the normal operations: commit, push ... I used and know other similar products but not Git. I'm searching in Git a feature I used in the past in another product. The situation is: I "inherited" a big Visual Studio 2013