Re: [git-users] Re: Testing a file with lots of change chunks, one chunk at a time
The -u switch of git-stash doesn't do the same as git-clean, i.e. it won't delete your untracked files in a way you can't restore. git-stash -u will stash your untracked files as if they were part of the repository; without that only tracked modified files would be stashed and it won't touch ignored untracked files. What I suggested is, in detail: 0. Start with a clean state (no modified files except the faulty config) 1. Use git-gui to add chunks you want to test 2. use git stash --keep-index to stash all other parts of your config (the parts that weren't added 3. test 4. if everything works fine, commit 5. use git stash pop to get your stashed config back; now you have all the modifications to the config, except the ones you've just tested 6. repeat steps 1-5 until you find the problem and fix it 7. using git rebase you can squash your small testing commits together BR, Gergely On 10 May 2015 18:06, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Keep index? -u? (reads manual) ... (reads git-clean) ... Definitely do NOT want -u :-). Git stash gives me the same issue, unless there is something I don't know about. In order to do the test, the checked out working copy needs to NOT have spare/untested chunks in it. In other words, I have (roughly) 2 sets of 9 changes. One set is optional -- things will work better if I can get them to work, but they are not necessary. The other set is must get to work, and I've confirmed that at least two of them (one found, now hunting the second) is bad. My understanding (is this correct?) is that after git stash --keep-index, I have a file that is a copy of what is in the index, ready to commit -- and the commit, if it works, records success. What I am currently doing: git checkout broken-all chest_content.cfg# Get the broken file with everything # This is the command I did not know how to do # Warning: it starts with the whole file in index git gui # Visually commit the lines for one segment at a time # First uncommit the whole file, then add just one segment git checkout -- chest_content.cfg # and throw away the other changes ## test test test # See if it works or breaks Repeat those last 4 lines until it breaks; then, back out one commit. What I understand you are recommending git checkout broken-all chest_content.cfg# Get the broken file with everything Loop target: git gui # edit; have one new chunk in the index, the rest as uncommitted chunks. # File has everything, including uncertain stuff not yet tested. # Index has new lines to test. Make file match index git stash --keep-index # test test test git commit -m one more down, N more to go # assuming it worked git stash pop# Restore all the things not yet tested Is that correct? ... If so, it solves the next problem -- how to continue after finding and fixing one set of patches, and still hunting down the next one (which ... failed miserably for me last night :-). On 2015-05-10, at 12:03 AM, Gergely Polonkai gerg...@polonkai.eu wrote: Hello, how about using stash? git add -p (or use git gui) to add some lines you want to check, but don't commit git stash --keep-index do your tests. If everything is fine, make a commit git stash pop start over when you are finished, you will have several commits, so you may want to squash them with git rebase -i Also, be aware that stash puts every modified file away, but not untracked files (use -u for that), so if you have modified files other than that config, you should commit them first. Best, Gergely On 10 May 2015 02:18, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-05-09, at 2:59 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: So here's something that I'd like to do, and I'm wondering if Git is the right tool for this. I have a program's config file, that is broken up into a large number of sections. One of them is causing a problem. All of them have been modified. ... What comes to mind as a good way to do this: 1. Commit the version that has too many (including the problem section) edits made to it, to one branch. 2. Start a new branch (off the parent, not that over-edited commit), and start that with a plain config file. 3. Repeat loop: a. Check out a copy from the branch in #1. b. Commit one chunk into the branch in #2. c. Reset the file to the version just checked in d. Test 4. As long as that works, each loop will test, and commit, one more section of edits. The problem? I don't have any idea how to check out a copy of file X from branch OverEdit into branch Testing. Is there a better way to do this with git? Is git the wrong tool? Ok, I think I have a way to do this. I now want to know, is this the best way, is
Re: [git-users] Re: Testing a file with lots of change chunks, one chunk at a time
Hello, how about using stash? git add -p (or use git gui) to add some lines you want to check, but don't commit git stash --keep-index do your tests. If everything is fine, make a commit git stash pop start over when you are finished, you will have several commits, so you may want to squash them with git rebase -i Also, be aware that stash puts every modified file away, but not untracked files (use -u for that), so if you have modified files other than that config, you should commit them first. Best, Gergely On 10 May 2015 02:18, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-05-09, at 2:59 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: So here's something that I'd like to do, and I'm wondering if Git is the right tool for this. I have a program's config file, that is broken up into a large number of sections. One of them is causing a problem. All of them have been modified. ... What comes to mind as a good way to do this: 1. Commit the version that has too many (including the problem section) edits made to it, to one branch. 2. Start a new branch (off the parent, not that over-edited commit), and start that with a plain config file. 3. Repeat loop: a. Check out a copy from the branch in #1. b. Commit one chunk into the branch in #2. c. Reset the file to the version just checked in d. Test 4. As long as that works, each loop will test, and commit, one more section of edits. The problem? I don't have any idea how to check out a copy of file X from branch OverEdit into branch Testing. Is there a better way to do this with git? Is git the wrong tool? Ok, I think I have a way to do this. I now want to know, is this the best way, is there a better way, are there hidden gotchas with this? git checkout -b Chest # Start with a new branch git add chest_content.cfg # Put the base, unaltered config file in git commit -m base config file # and save it git checkout -b broken-all# Now, another branch for the broken set of changes cp ../Loot/chest_content.cfg .# Put the broken file in place git commit . # Save the broken file into git git checkout Chest# Back to the working branch git checkout broken-all chest_content.cfg# Get the broken file with everything # This is the command I did not know how to do # Warning: it starts with the whole file in index git gui # Visually commit the lines for one segment at a time # First uncommit the whole file, then add just one segment git checkout -- chest_content.cfg # and throw away the other changes ## test test test # See if it works or breaks Repeat those last 4 lines until it breaks; then, back out one commit. --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce -- 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-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [git-users] Re: Testing a file with lots of change chunks, one chunk at a time
Keep index? -u? (reads manual) ... (reads git-clean) ... Definitely do NOT want -u :-). Git stash gives me the same issue, unless there is something I don't know about. In order to do the test, the checked out working copy needs to NOT have spare/untested chunks in it. In other words, I have (roughly) 2 sets of 9 changes. One set is optional -- things will work better if I can get them to work, but they are not necessary. The other set is must get to work, and I've confirmed that at least two of them (one found, now hunting the second) is bad. My understanding (is this correct?) is that after git stash --keep-index, I have a file that is a copy of what is in the index, ready to commit -- and the commit, if it works, records success. What I am currently doing: git checkout broken-all chest_content.cfg# Get the broken file with everything # This is the command I did not know how to do # Warning: it starts with the whole file in index git gui # Visually commit the lines for one segment at a time # First uncommit the whole file, then add just one segment git checkout -- chest_content.cfg # and throw away the other changes ## test test test # See if it works or breaks Repeat those last 4 lines until it breaks; then, back out one commit. What I understand you are recommending git checkout broken-all chest_content.cfg# Get the broken file with everything Loop target: git gui # edit; have one new chunk in the index, the rest as uncommitted chunks. # File has everything, including uncertain stuff not yet tested. # Index has new lines to test. Make file match index git stash --keep-index # test test test git commit -m one more down, N more to go # assuming it worked git stash pop# Restore all the things not yet tested Is that correct? ... If so, it solves the next problem -- how to continue after finding and fixing one set of patches, and still hunting down the next one (which ... failed miserably for me last night :-). On 2015-05-10, at 12:03 AM, Gergely Polonkai gerg...@polonkai.eu wrote: Hello, how about using stash? git add -p (or use git gui) to add some lines you want to check, but don't commit git stash --keep-index do your tests. If everything is fine, make a commit git stash pop start over when you are finished, you will have several commits, so you may want to squash them with git rebase -i Also, be aware that stash puts every modified file away, but not untracked files (use -u for that), so if you have modified files other than that config, you should commit them first. Best, Gergely On 10 May 2015 02:18, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-05-09, at 2:59 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: So here's something that I'd like to do, and I'm wondering if Git is the right tool for this. I have a program's config file, that is broken up into a large number of sections. One of them is causing a problem. All of them have been modified. ... What comes to mind as a good way to do this: 1. Commit the version that has too many (including the problem section) edits made to it, to one branch. 2. Start a new branch (off the parent, not that over-edited commit), and start that with a plain config file. 3. Repeat loop: a. Check out a copy from the branch in #1. b. Commit one chunk into the branch in #2. c. Reset the file to the version just checked in d. Test 4. As long as that works, each loop will test, and commit, one more section of edits. The problem? I don't have any idea how to check out a copy of file X from branch OverEdit into branch Testing. Is there a better way to do this with git? Is git the wrong tool? Ok, I think I have a way to do this. I now want to know, is this the best way, is there a better way, are there hidden gotchas with this? git checkout -b Chest # Start with a new branch git add chest_content.cfg # Put the base, unaltered config file in git commit -m base config file # and save it git checkout -b broken-all# Now, another branch for the broken set of changes cp ../Loot/chest_content.cfg .# Put the broken file in place git commit . # Save the broken file into git git checkout Chest# Back to the working branch git checkout broken-all chest_content.cfg# Get the broken file with everything # This is the command I did not know how to do # Warning: it starts with the whole file in index git gui # Visually commit the lines for one segment at a time #
[git-users] Re: Testing a file with lots of change chunks, one chunk at a time
On 2015-05-09, at 2:59 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: So here's something that I'd like to do, and I'm wondering if Git is the right tool for this. I have a program's config file, that is broken up into a large number of sections. One of them is causing a problem. All of them have been modified. ... What comes to mind as a good way to do this: 1. Commit the version that has too many (including the problem section) edits made to it, to one branch. 2. Start a new branch (off the parent, not that over-edited commit), and start that with a plain config file. 3. Repeat loop: a. Check out a copy from the branch in #1. b. Commit one chunk into the branch in #2. c. Reset the file to the version just checked in d. Test 4. As long as that works, each loop will test, and commit, one more section of edits. The problem? I don't have any idea how to check out a copy of file X from branch OverEdit into branch Testing. Is there a better way to do this with git? Is git the wrong tool? Ok, I think I have a way to do this. I now want to know, is this the best way, is there a better way, are there hidden gotchas with this? git checkout -b Chest # Start with a new branch git add chest_content.cfg # Put the base, unaltered config file in git commit -m base config file # and save it git checkout -b broken-all# Now, another branch for the broken set of changes cp ../Loot/chest_content.cfg .# Put the broken file in place git commit . # Save the broken file into git git checkout Chest# Back to the working branch git checkout broken-all chest_content.cfg# Get the broken file with everything # This is the command I did not know how to do # Warning: it starts with the whole file in index git gui # Visually commit the lines for one segment at a time # First uncommit the whole file, then add just one segment git checkout -- chest_content.cfg # and throw away the other changes ## test test test # See if it works or breaks Repeat those last 4 lines until it breaks; then, back out one commit. --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce -- 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-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
