Re: [git-users] High level usage question

2015-05-18 Thread John Bleichert
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 5:58:47 AM UTC-4, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > > On Sun, 17 May 2015 17:31:03 -0400 > wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) wrote: > > > John Bleichert > writes: > > > Basically, that's what > > git remote -v show > > does: it reaches for the server behind

Re: [git-users] High level usage question

2015-05-18 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Sun, 17 May 2015 17:31:03 -0400 wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) wrote: > John Bleichert writes: > > I understand that the underlying git principle is that "everything > > is local". Is there really no way to compare local to remote? > > > > Alternatively, should I be branching and merging

Re: [git-users] High level usage question

2015-05-17 Thread Dale R. Worley
John Bleichert writes: > I understand that the underlying git principle is that "everything is > local". Is there really no way to compare local to remote? > > Alternatively, should I be branching and merging every time I switch > machines? This seems a strange way to use the tool. > > As I said

[git-users] High level usage question

2015-05-17 Thread John Bleichert
Hello All, I have been using git for a while and understand the tooling fairly well. As the only user of a specific git repo across several machines I simply push when done on one machine and then fetch when moving to a different machine. For instance when closing my laptop for the day and movi