[git-users] Re: fatal: protocol error: bad line length character

2014-06-11 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
Just occurred to me that I left some relevant pieces out in my quoting. Here's the whole original message (also available at [1]): On Monday, June 9, 2014 9:52:44 PM UTC+2, Clinton Parham wrote: Hello git users, I'm trying to run a git server on my Windows 7 workstation. I've downloaded

Re: [git-users] Get file SHA just prior to tag

2014-06-11 Thread Gergely Polonkai
Now that we know this, git-bisect is exactly the tool he needs! He specifies the last known commit without the bug, and the first known commit with the bug. Git will then choose intermediate commits for you to test if the bug still exists, and point you to the first bad one. Hope that helps. On

[git-users] Regarding git repository disk space consumption

2014-06-11 Thread chetna chaudhari
Hi, I read a line about git in https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-large-files article * In addition, if a repository is 10 GB in size, Git's architecture requires another 10 GB of extra free space available at all times.* can someone please explain , why git needs

[git-users] Looking for Suggestions

2014-06-11 Thread HOWARD ROSENBLOOM
We are a small company that has not been using any form of configuration/tracking in the past. We have 2-3 programmers and have gotten into the situation where we need to get control of any work being done. Since none of us have any experience in this area I am looking for suggestions as to

[git-users] git strange behavior

2014-06-11 Thread djsuperfive
Hi, I'm working on project with another developer. Until now, we didn't have any issues with git. We pulled and pushed normally. Since a few days, when I pull, I get the files modified by the other developer but they are put into an merging branch and git asks me to fix the conflicts. I don't

Re: [git-users] Looking for Suggestions

2014-06-11 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: HOWARD ROSENBLOOM hrsn...@gmail.com We are a small company that has not been using any form of configuration/tracking in the past. We have 2-3 programmers and have gotten into the situation where we need to get control of any work being done. Since none of us have any experience in

Re: [git-users] Get file SHA just prior to tag

2014-06-11 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: Gergely Polonkai gerg...@polonkai.eu Now that we know this, git-bisect is exactly the tool he needs! He specifies the last known commit without the bug, and the first known commit with the bug. Git will then choose intermediate commits for you to test if the bug still exists, and point

[git-users] Re: fatal: protocol error: bad line length character

2014-06-11 Thread Clinton Parham
F:\gitgit --version git version 1.9.2.msysgit.0 Thanks. On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:21:09 AM UTC-4, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: Just occurred to me that I left some relevant pieces out in my quoting. Here's the whole original message (also available at [1]): On Monday, June 9, 2014

[git-users] Re: Regarding git repository disk space consumption

2014-06-11 Thread John Fisher
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:10:43 AM UTC-7, chetna chaudhari wrote: Hi, I read a line about git in https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-large-files article * In addition, if a repository is 10 GB in size, Git's architecture requires another 10 GB of

Re: [git-users] Get file SHA just prior to tag

2014-06-11 Thread Gergely Polonkai
git-ls-tree prints the blob’s (file’s) hash. It has nothing to do with a commit, which has its own hash (as you have already noticed). As far as I can get, your boss needs a commit hash, as he wants to know who and when introduced the bug. For that, you can even use git-bisect (as I suggested

Re: [git-users] Get file SHA just prior to tag

2014-06-11 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: John Fisher fishook2...@gmail.com [...] [1:text/plain Hide] *but that output does not agree with git log!* I am totally lost what you're talking about. git log lists *commits* and their SHAs. You say you entered git log rmapi_bcmxlat.c and you seem to expect it to contain the SHAs

Re: [git-users] Get file SHA just prior to tag

2014-06-11 Thread Gergely Polonkai
Trying to make things a bit more clean… @John Fisher, you (and maybe your boss) might want to read [1] which somewhat explains git’s private parts, and how exactly it works. Not the most complete list (to be honest, I’ve seen a better one *somewhere*, I just lost the link :( Anyways, I hope it

Re: [git-users] Re: Regarding git repository disk space consumption

2014-06-11 Thread chetna chaudhari
John, Thanks for replying . So In my case I am already having a bare repository of size ~ 25 G. That's why I was worrying about keeping additional free space of 25G for all time is not feasible . So I am maintaining a centralized data storage , where every application will store some data

Re: [git-users] Looking for Suggestions

2014-06-11 Thread Charles Manning
Git is certainly a bit harder to learn than SVN, but it is so much more flexible. git's strength is that it works seamlessly as a single-user system and and a multi-user + server system. I use git to track changes during development even if I never move it from the original PC. Git has the

Re: [git-users] Looking for Suggestions

2014-06-11 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:03:39 PM UTC+2, Dale Worley wrote: From: HOWARD ROSENBLOOM hrs...@gmail.com javascript: We are a small company that has not been using any form of configuration/tracking in the past. We have 2-3 programmers and have gotten into the situation where we