Re: [git-users] An unbelievably newby question

2015-10-13 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:19:21 -0700 Kenoli Oleari wrote: > Thanks for these replies. I will jump in and try them out. > > For all the cheers about GIT, If find it incredibly difficult to use > (or to even understand) > > I appreciate the support. I wonder if you have any

Re: [git-users] An unbelievably newby question

2015-10-12 Thread John McKown
I sometimes need to do this too. I start with the command: git log -- some.file.txt In my case, this is the file: bvir.txt (a strange stat file from another system) I enter: "git log -- bvir" (no quotes, of course), and get a list like: commit b6cf0ddb83381ed3d0e2001d3d28935106bcbc8c Author:

[git-users] An unbelievably newby question

2015-10-11 Thread Kenoli Oleari
I've installed GIT, can do all the actions to commit a file but, somehow, cannot figure out how to actually see a previous version of my file. I've tried some commands related to history that return things to me that I can't make any sense out of. I've bought several books on this, all of