[git-users] Problem with moving everything into a subdirectory; merge conflicts

2013-01-06 Thread Carsten Fuchs
Hi all, we have a repository with essentially this commit graph: o---o---o---...---o---o---D <-- develop / / / o---o---o---o---...---M <-- master As shown, we occasionally merge "master" into "develop", but never vice-versa. (We create our releases o

Re: [git-users] Problem with moving everything into a subdirectory; merge conflicts

2013-01-06 Thread Philip Oakley
Surley (?) the simplest method, given your limited number of branches, is to capture and repeat the moves as a script once for each branch, so that each branch has a flag day commit. Then the development merging should proceed just fine. At least then the file rename machinery has much less to

[git-users] Re: Problem with moving everything into a subdirectory; merge conflicts

2013-01-06 Thread Carsten Fuchs
Hi Philip, Am 2013-01-06 14:59, schrieb Philip Oakley: Surley (?) the simplest method, given your limited number of branches, is to capture and repeat the moves as a script once for each branch, so that each branch has a flag day commit. Then the development merging should proceed just fine.

Re: [git-users] Re: Problem with moving everything into a subdirectory; merge conflicts

2013-01-06 Thread Philip Oakley
Aha, I think I see it now... Your issue [my mistake] is that the (gits's) merge process is a three way merge, so you have the two commits F and N to merge, but git will also locate the merge-base at M (which has the old directory structure), and compares the diffs between them [M-F] and [M-N]

[git-users] download a directory or file without clone the whole tree

2013-01-06 Thread lei yang
Hi experts I find my treeA want to have another treeB's dir, I don't want to clone the whole treeB, I don't know can we do it with git the get treeB's dir Lei --

[git-users] git send-email with "space" help

2013-01-06 Thread lei yang
git send-email -2 --to lei.y...@windriver.com --subject-prefix=meta-networking][PATCH:V2> works results: subject is : [meta-networking][PATCH:V2 1/2] Removing README from libvirt and qemu dirs but I want [meta-networking][PATCH V2 1/2] Removing README from libvirt and qemu dirs git send-