Re: updating the git documentation on http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/

2005-07-26 Thread David Greaves
from cvs' URL and couldn't find one. Thomas, I suspect you have a wrong David, and would want to ask David Greaves instead. quite right. I've dropped out somewhat since moving house/job. I'll fix it. David -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body

wit suggestion

2005-04-22 Thread David Greaves
Hi Christian Can I suggest a 'summary diff' option It's basically a diff between the tree of the commit and the tree of the parent commit It would show what files have changed rather than the diff of the files that have changed. (kinda like diffstat without the for now) (or maybe just

Re: [PATCH] Add help details to git help command. (This time with Perl)

2005-04-21 Thread David Greaves
We've decided to go for the individual scripts directly. :-) Just to clarify - individual scripts or $0 name handling? I kinda like one big script - also means we don't need to 'install' it to get access to Cogito.pm... Unfortunately, you didn't send the attachments inline, so I can't comment on

Re: [PATCH] Improve usage messages

2005-04-21 Thread David Greaves
Petr Baudis wrote: Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:41:52PM CEST, I got a letter where Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... This patch adds somewhat-improved usage messages to some of Linus' programs. Specifically, they now handle -? / --help. just so you know, the intention of

[PATCH] Some documentation...

2005-04-20 Thread David Greaves
noticed a couple of points: * update-cache won't accept ./file or fred/./file * checkout-cache doesn't seem to preserve mode Are these bugs or should they be documented? I've taken the approach of documenting behaviour for now. Signed-off-by: David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index

Re: [PATCH] Some documentation...

2005-04-20 Thread David Greaves
C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, David Greaves wrote: In doing this I noticed a couple of points: * update-cache won't accept ./file or fred/./file The comment in update-cache.c reads: /* * We fundamentally don't like some paths: we don't want * dot or dot-dot anywhere, and in fact

Re: Git hangs while executing commit-tree

2005-04-20 Thread David Greaves
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Rhys Hardwick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/repo/tmp.repo$ commit-tree c80156fafbac377ab35beb076090c8320f874f91 Committing initial tree c80156fafbac377ab35beb076090c8320f874f91 At this point, the command seems to be just waiting. That's _exactly_ what

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

2005-04-19 Thread David Greaves
David A. Wheeler wrote: I propose changing pull to ONLY download, and update to pull AND merge. Why? It seems oddly inconsistent that pull sometimes merges in changes, but at other times it doesn't. true I propose that there be two subcommands, pull and update (now that update isn't a reserved

Re: [RFC] Another way to provide help details. (was Re: [PATCH] Add help details to git help command.)

2005-04-19 Thread David Greaves
Petr Baudis wrote: Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:40:54AM CEST, I got a letter where Steven Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... Here is perhaps a better way to provide detailed help for each git command. A command.help file for each command can be written in the style of a man page. I

Re: [PATCH] Add help details to git help command. (This time with Perl)

2005-04-19 Thread David Greaves
Steven Cole wrote: Speaking of I think, the name cogito was suggested for the SCM layer, but IIRC Linus suggested staying with just plain git. Petr suggested tig, perhaps because it looks at git from another point of view. I haven't read _all_ the mails - I thought cogito was kinda selected and

First git-pasky bug report? :) error: bad signature/verify header failed

2005-04-18 Thread David Greaves
Hi I'm just starting to look at git (and cogito). Earlier this morning I got and built http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/git/git-pasky-base.tar.bz2 I then did a git pull pasky and a make. All went well. A couple of hours later I did another git pull pasky and had the problem shown below. I moved

Re: Add + Status patches

2005-04-18 Thread David Greaves
Junio C Hamano wrote: DG It allows: DG find src -type f | git add - I am slow today, but have you considered using xargs? yep thanks :) I know you _could_ do it with xargs - but you _could_ use the raw git commands too. This is a be nice to the user layer and I was 'surprised' that neither