Re: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository

2013-08-22 Thread peter
Hi Dale, Well ehhh. I feel somewhat ashamed right now When I followed your last instructions I stumbled upon a few hardlinks in the tar-file from my original source. And, as I understood Git treats these hardlinks as separate files. And yes, in the tar-file from Git I found a few exact co

Re: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository

2013-08-22 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: peter > When I followed your last instructions I stumbled upon a few hardlinks in > the tar-file from my original source. And, as I understood Git treats these > hardlinks as separate files. And yes, in the tar-file from Git I found a > few exact copy's for several binaries. But now al

Re: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository

2013-08-22 Thread p...@mad-scientist.net
If you're willing to switch to soft links, many SCM tools (including git) will handle those correctly. Plus tar will save the link rather than more copies of the file. wor...@alum.mit.edu wrote: >> From: peter > >> When I followed your last instructions I stumbled upon a few hardlinks in >

Re: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository

2013-08-22 Thread P.J. Boudewijns
Hi Paul, Yep, I already modified my filesystem to soft-links. So now all goes well with git. Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-

[git-users] Can Git run for commercial purposes?

2013-08-22 Thread manhapt vn
My company is an software outsourcing company. We're managing documents/source codes of all projects using SVN. Git is great and truly fast. I really like it. I want to setup Git on our host and change to Git. Git is released under the GPLv2 open

[git-users] test version in the index

2013-08-22 Thread joeriel314
After making a number of changes, I decide I want to commit some of them and continue working on the rest. I do this by moving the desired parts to the index. Before committing, it would useful if there were a way to test this commit alone, say, so it doesn't break a build. Is there a convenien

Re: [git-users] Can Git run for commercial purposes?

2013-08-22 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:23:10PM -0700, manhapt vn wrote: > My company is an software outsourcing company. We're managing > documents/source codes of all projects using SVN. > > Git is great and truly fast. I really like it. Yes, it's really rather good isn't it? > I want to setup Git on our

Re: [git-users] test version in the index

2013-08-22 Thread William Seiti Mizuta
You can put the not commited changes in the stash (git stash). Then you run the tests and recover the changes with git stash pop. William Seiti Mizuta @williammizuta Caelum | Ensino e Inovação www.caelum.com.br On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:55 AM, wrote: > After making a number of changes, I deci

Re: [git-users] test version in the index

2013-08-22 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Friday, August 23, 2013 7:59:03 AM UTC+2, William Seiti Mizuta wrote: > You can put the not commited changes in the stash (git stash). Then you > run the tests and recover the changes with git stash pop. > A slightly finer variation of this is to continuously stash while you keep the things

Re: [git-users] test version in the index

2013-08-22 Thread Philip Oakley
One possible technique its to check out the current index into a temporary git work directory (which can be set as part of the command). Given that you may not have committed the current index, I see the options as creating a temporary branch just to commit the current index, or using one of th