Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what does git not do *easily* you shouldn't be doing anyway?

2016-09-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Alex Pilon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:48:15AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > perfect example: "how do i find the Nth last version of a file?" > > now, you can certainly do this in git, using "git log", then extract > > the commit ID from the appropriate line

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what does git not do *easily* you shouldn't be doing anyway?

2016-09-28 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:48:15AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > perfect example: "how do i find the Nth last version of a file?" > now, you can certainly do this in git, using "git log", then extract > the commit ID from the appropriate line and so on. but (AFAIK), there > is no single

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what does git not do *easily* you shouldn't be doing anyway?

2016-09-28 Thread Alex Pilon
> > prepping for delivering upcoming git courses, and i'm adding a short > > page for questions i get on a regular basis along the lines of "how do > > you do X in git?" when, for the most part, i typically answer, "why > > would you want to do that in the first place?" > > Like maybe locking a

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what does git not do *easily* you shouldn't be doing anyway?

2016-09-28 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 2016-09-28 04:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > prepping for delivering upcoming git courses, and i'm adding a short > page for questions i get on a regular basis along the lines of "how do > you do X in git?" when, for the most part, i typically answer, "why > would you want to do that in

[OCLUG-Tech] what does git not do *easily* you shouldn't be doing anyway?

2016-09-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
prepping for delivering upcoming git courses, and i'm adding a short page for questions i get on a regular basis along the lines of "how do you do X in git?" when, for the most part, i typically answer, "why would you want to do that in the first place?" unsurprisingly, it's fairly common