Re: How to propagate critical fixs from master to develope branch.

2018-11-22 Thread Andrew Ardill
dology (but doesn't require it). A pretty good discussion of these ideas can be found at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7175869/managing-hotfixes-when-develop-branch-is-very-different-from-master Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: [GSoC] Info: new blog series of my work on Git GSoC '18

2018-05-02 Thread Andrew Ardill
ll scripts to a built-in. I'm sure other people are too, and I'll bet the ones who have been there before will have feedback for you as well. I'd find it interesting even if it was a 5-line bullet list of what's going through your mind with respect to the project! Looking forward to following along. Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: please change stash

2018-02-12 Thread Andrew Ardill
ight work for stash pop conflicts. This one[1] shows how to create hooks that catch any conflicts that are being committed, and would also probably work with stash conflicts. Teaching the tool to handle stash conflicts, or making any of the above changes to the base distribution of git would be signific

Re: Bug/comment

2018-01-29 Thread Andrew Ardill
ipedia.org/wiki/Yes_(Unix) I agree it's a little weird if you have no idea what it's doing, but it is very useful and very old, used by many many different scripts etc, and so unlikely to change. Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: Branch name support & character

2017-09-06 Thread Andrew Ardill
branch names, specifically because it is a special character in shells. Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

2017-08-20 Thread Andrew Ardill
Hi Anatoli, On 21 August 2017 at 07:57, Anatolii Borodin <anatoly.boro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Andrew Ardill <andrew.ard...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Maybe I am missing something obvious, but if that's the case then >> can't we just do

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

2017-08-20 Thread Andrew Ardill
ing commits > with bogus ident information, we changed it in 2012. Maybe I am missing something obvious, but if that's the case then can't we just do the identity check when trying to make new commits, in which case you should be able to pull without setting your identity? Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: git clean -fdx deletes tracked files

2017-08-16 Thread Andrew Ardill
, Andrew Ardill On 16 August 2017 at 16:47, Kim Birkelund <k...@birkelund.me> wrote: > Apologies. I should obviously have mentioned which OSes the machines I > tested on ran. > > One Windows 10 (fully updated) and one Windows Server 2016 (also > updated). I've also seen it in a r

Re: Contact with Latinamerica

2017-07-30 Thread Andrew Ardill
ian Couder (cc'd) organised the last few editions, and might have an idea about how it could be localised if that was something your community wanted to support. Regards, Andrew Ardill [0] https://git.github.io/rev_news/

Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

2017-07-25 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 25 July 2017 at 04:11, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 02:58:38PM +1000, Andrew Ardill wrote: > >> On 24 July 2017 at 13:45, Farshid Zavareh <fhzava...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I'll probably test this myself, but would modifying an

Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

2017-07-23 Thread Andrew Ardill
8s $ time git checkout master # 38.267s $ git gc $ du -h --max-depth=1 1.3G./.git 3.4G. $ time git checkout HEAD^ # 34.743s $ time git checkout HEAD^ # 41.226s Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

2017-07-23 Thread Andrew Ardill
be replicated later on, but I don't want to add 4GB of data to the repo every single time the dataset gets updated (also every quarter). Storing that in LFS would be a good solution then. Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: Dropping a merge from history -- rebase or filter-branch or ...?

2017-07-11 Thread Andrew Ardill
ing on how you do the revert. Does that page describe what you're trying to do? Regards, Andrew Ardill On 8 July 2017 at 07:07, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi git-folk! > > long time no see! I'm trying to do one of those "actually, please > d

Re: [GSoC] Update: Week 5

2017-06-19 Thread Andrew Ardill
o maybe I missed what has happened to it. Really enjoying your updates, by the way, they are very clear and show what looks like great progress! Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: feature request: user email config per domain

2017-02-22 Thread Andrew Ardill
There was a patch suggested, and it worked quite well, but nothing further has been done to my knowledge. [0] http://public-inbox.org/git/7vvc3d1o01@alter.siamese.dyndns.org/ Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: Potential Same Name Bug

2016-09-12 Thread Andrew Ardill
v -f to rename files on case insensitive file systems. Details at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17683458/how-do-i-commit-case-sensitive-only-filename-changes-in-git Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: [RFC] Proposed questions for "Git User's Survey 2016"

2016-08-26 Thread Andrew Ardill
Hi, Jakub Narębski <jna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrew Ardill pisze: > > Jakub Narębski <jna...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 25. What [channel(s)] do you use to request/get help about Git [(if any)] > > > > It may also be useful to ask how people hear news about

Re: [RFC] Proposed questions for "Git User's Survey 2016"

2016-08-21 Thread Andrew Ardill
ir distro and update at the same time as they update other packages, but it would be interesting to know if people, for example, only upgrade their managed environments every year/6 months or something to avoid introducing changes to their users. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this l

Re: Git Bash Slow in Windows (possible fix)

2016-06-23 Thread Andrew Ardill
on this seems unlikely that that is all that is going on is due to you seeing the behaviour on a completely fresh OS and git install. If you are able to give more details in the bug report about how to reproduce the behaviour that will help a lot too. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe fro

Re: git merge branch --no-commit does commit fast forward merges

2016-04-18 Thread Andrew Ardill
g that would break scripts etc, but if so you could make it implied only if we detect a terminal or something like is done in other places. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More m

Re: git merge branch --no-commit does commit fast forward merges

2016-04-18 Thread Andrew Ardill
-ff however I suspect that such a change may well cause more problems then it fixes. What I wonder is, in what situation is the current behaviour is desirable? While I agree that the option works as designed, I think its behaviour is more surprising to the end user then it should be. Regards, Andrew Ard

Re: Gated Merge?

2016-02-11 Thread Andrew Ardill
rst? What if I reorder the commits? My practical knowledge of notes is severely lacking so excuse me if I missed anything obvious. Regards, Andrew Ardill (sorry for the double post Junio, gmail ate my plain text encoding at some point...) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: Starting on a microproject for GSoC

2016-01-27 Thread Andrew Ardill
o do as many microprojects as possible, leaving few for other people. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: email sender plugin in stash

2015-09-21 Thread Andrew Ardill
er changeset.author.name or changeset.author.emailAddress if you want to filter on whose commits are included, or changeset.parents if you only want to include merge commits. There are plenty of options for more complex filtering, but that might be able to help Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscr

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

2015-08-02 Thread Andrew Ardill
/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt) for all the nitty gritty details. --8-- I'll copy this over to a pull request so you have it there if you think it's useful. Again, thanks for the edition, love reading these each month! Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Promoting Git developers

2015-03-11 Thread Andrew Ardill
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Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-21 Thread Andrew Ardill
together would make the intended usage more obvious to both new and old users, though each change could stand on its own as well. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: Git in GSoC 2014

2014-04-21 Thread Andrew Ardill
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Re: Our official home page and logo for the Git project

2014-04-09 Thread Andrew Ardill
one, https://github.com/git would be a good place to put this. Regards, Andrew Ardill (I'm always concerned about making useless contributions to conversations like this, but I think having a specific location for resources like the logo will be very valuable). -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: An idea for git bisect and a GSoC enquiry

2014-02-27 Thread Andrew Ardill
the relationship direction, or adding new adjective pairs). Sorry if that is all confusing to read, or if I'm repeating things that have been said before :) Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: Feature Request Google Authenticator Support

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Ardill
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Re: Add a bugzilla website

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew Ardill
tracking solution; the solution is not obvious, and the current (very customised) workflow is not supported directly by any tool. Regards, Andrew Ardill [1] https://git-scm.atlassian.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord

Re: Help creating git alias

2013-10-30 Thread Andrew Ardill
Have you tried backslash escaping the backslash? double escaping? I don't know how many are required, but I would try first \S, then \\S, then S, etc Regards, Andrew Ardill On 30 October 2013 12:34, Eugene Sajine eugu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need some advice about creating the git

Re: collapsing old git history to reduce repo size, while preserving commit #s and tags

2013-10-29 Thread Andrew Ardill
with commit numbers and looses tags.. Is there any other way to have it done ? It sounds like a shallow checkout might be appropriate for you, try looking that up. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord

Has Git 2.0 started to be integrated?

2013-10-16 Thread Andrew Ardill
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Re: Has Git 2.0 started to be integrated?

2013-10-16 Thread Andrew Ardill
of the next release, to encourage people who test that branch to try them out. (Just thinking out loud.) I guess that's my real question; we haven't had a major version release for a long time and I don't know what the cycle will look like. Will be interesting to see how it progresses. Regards, Andrew

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-related-0.1

2013-10-10 Thread Andrew Ardill
behaviour. They are only displayed if they pass a minimum threshold of participation. Out of interest, how is the threshold determined and is it configurable? Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

Re: git should not use a default user.email config value

2013-08-13 Thread Andrew Ardill
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:01:03PM +1000, Andrew Ardill wrote: On 12 August 2013 22:39, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: We could do something like the patch below, which allows: $ git config --global include./magic/.path .gitconfig-magic to read ~/.gitconfig-magic only when we

Re: git should not use a default user.email config value

2013-08-13 Thread Andrew Ardill
the subsection chaining is the nicest overall, though your original repo: proposal seems to be the easiest to implement. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: git should not use a default user.email config value

2013-08-12 Thread Andrew Ardill
folder to my other git directories, and as such it would be extremely convenient if every repository under that folder defaulted to the same profile. That may be asking for too much though! Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body

Re: git should not use a default user.email config value

2013-08-12 Thread Andrew Ardill
will be a bit clearer. Again thanks, this will scratch an itch I didn't even realise I had. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: merging commit history

2013-07-11 Thread Andrew Ardill
be too much pain going that way. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Feature request: author branch in commit object

2013-07-03 Thread Andrew Ardill
workflows have done a lot to promote a set of usage patterns that keep this metadata around, I just wonder if we can do more to assist users in what seems to be a relatively common request. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body

Re: Why does git config output nothing instead of the default value for unset variables?

2013-04-14 Thread Andrew Ardill
has been set. Your proposed change would break all those. For that reason, it might be nicer to introduce a flag that returns the config if it is set or the default otherwise. Something like git config --value perhaps. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Why does git config output nothing instead of the default value for unset variables?

2013-04-14 Thread Andrew Ardill
change, but a flag to change the behaviour might be nice. Then again, there may be away to do what you want already :-) Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-13 Thread Andrew Ardill
documentation for -p). When in patch mode, git add will propose deletions get added to the index as well, not just additions and modifications. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-13 Thread Andrew Ardill
that behaviour off. So, when we talk about git add -u and git add -A, we should also mention git add -p. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Ardill
) and think the previous discussions and patch look reasonable. Does it need testing? Further input?? Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Ardill
not to do git add -u or git commit -a. Many people use git add -p by default, so I would not be surprised about people not using -u or -a. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo

Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

2013-02-04 Thread Andrew Ardill
?? Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: How to identify the users?

2013-01-30 Thread Andrew Ardill
. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: RFC: git config -l should not expose sensitive information

2012-12-20 Thread Andrew Ardill
prompting the user would be annoying when using this command? Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Noob Question

2012-12-20 Thread Andrew Ardill
containing the exact state of all files. Hopefully that clears it up for you? Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/git-checkout.txt: clarify usage

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew Ardill
Regards, Andrew Ardill On 17 December 2012 19:20, Johannes Sixt j.s...@viscovery.net wrote: Am 12/17/2012 8:21, schrieb Junio C Hamano: Chris Rorvick ch...@rorvick.com writes: 'git checkout' [branch]:: Is branch really optional in this form? BTW, what does plain 'git checkout' do? Just

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/git-checkout.txt: clarify usage

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 18 December 2012 08:59, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Andrew Ardill andrew.ard...@gmail.com writes: Even if the primary purpose of git checkout branch is to check out the branch so that further work is done on that branch, I don't believe that means it has to be stated first

Re: problem with BOINC repository and CR/LF

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 18 December 2012 03:01, Toralf Förster toralf.foers...@gmx.de wrote: On 12/17/2012 12:38 PM, Andrew Ardill wrote: On 17 December 2012 21:23, Toralf Förster toralf.foers...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, I'm faced with this situation : http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/private/boinc_alpha/2012

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/git-checkout.txt: clarify usage

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew Ardill
, detach HEAD at it + (see DETACHED HEAD section), and update the index and the + files in the working tree. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: How to specify remote branch correctly

2012-12-16 Thread Andrew Ardill
changes we make might be 'lost' (that is, not have an easy to find branch name). Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: How to specify remote branch correctly

2012-12-16 Thread Andrew Ardill
to be in sync with the remote branch, but you haven't yet copied that remote reference to a local branch that you can update with your changes. Hope that clears it up. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

Re: How to specify remote branch correctly

2012-12-16 Thread Andrew Ardill
be useful to make this behaviour more clear. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/git-checkout.txt: document 70c9ac2 behavior

2012-12-16 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 17 December 2012 18:21, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: does it format well (I didn't check)? It applied cleanly for me on latest master, and the output looked consistent with existing documentation. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Feature Request - Hide ignored files before checkout

2012-12-09 Thread Andrew Ardill
it in general (maybe if you ignored everything belonging to the other repository?) In any case, this solution could quickly become messy, but if carefully controlled might solve your problem. Then again, maybe you can achieve what you want using more 'traditional' git workflows. Regards, Andrew

Re: Remote hung up during `git fetch`

2012-11-22 Thread Andrew Ardill
other gmail traffic has been fine over the period. Maybe somebody else knows what happened :) Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: [wishlist] support git flow-like view

2012-11-20 Thread Andrew Ardill
in gitk at the same time. You probably have some more specific needs beyond simply showing the different branches. Maybe you can be more specific? Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: [wishlist] support git flow-like view

2012-11-20 Thread Andrew Ardill
-lane, as per current behaviour, but to have separate branch heads in different swim-lanes. This would be a nice feature, and is similar to the behaviour in, for example, Atlassian's Fisheye repository viewer and the GitHub network view. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Local clones aka forks disk size optimization

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Ardill
, it will put any loose objects from the alternate tree too, so you'll have a fully packed archive, but it won't duplicate objects that are already packed in the alternate tree). [1] https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#How_to_share_objects_between_existing_repositories.3F Regards, Andrew Ardill

Re: Local clones aka forks disk size optimization

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Ardill
always recover by replacing the alternates file and starting over). Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Local clones aka forks disk size optimization

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Ardill
) --no-hardlinks can be used. So hardlinks should be used where possible, and if they are not try upgrading Git. I think that covers all the use cases you have? Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord

Re: Links broken in ref docs.

2012-10-21 Thread Andrew Ardill
the reference manual, but perhaps there is something else going on here. On another (related) note, the wayback machine has some very interesting entries for the scm-git.org domain [1] and it seems the /doc directory is not indexed at all. Is this on purpose? Regards, Andrew Ardill [1] http

Re: Merge option suggestion (dictator, humble)

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Ardill
setting up a project-default merge configuration for contributors that defaulted to --humble? Not sure if that is useful or not, but it at least seems safer than trying to default to doing reset --hard after every merge. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: feature request

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Ardill
before you merge it, but a tool to warn that someone else is modifying the same file would have its uses. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: Ignore on commit

2012-10-04 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 5 October 2012 12:20, Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:05 AM, demerphq demer...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 October 2012 03:00, Andrew Ardill andrew.ard...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 October 2012 07:20, Marco Craveiro marco.crave...@gmail.com wrote: ... Similar

Re: Suggestions for What's cooking

2012-09-13 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 14 September 2012 12:29, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Andrew Ardill andrew.ard...@gmail.com writes: On 14 September 2012 04:06, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Andrew Ardill andrew.ard...@gmail.com writes: short-branch-description long-branch-description notes

Re: Suggestions for What's cooking

2012-09-12 Thread Andrew Ardill
am not interested in without having to scan the list of commits and other details. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html