git config --global not picking up includes

Garrison However, when I pass the --global flag to git config, my name is not picked up: $ git config --global user.name $ git config user.name Jim Garrison If I instead replace .gitconfig with the contents of gitconfig-include (and in turn remove the include step), everything works

Beginner question on Pull is mostly evil

During my initial self-education I came across the maxim don't pull, fetch+merge instead and have been doing that. I think I followed most of the pull is (mostly) evil discussion but one facet still puzzles me: the idea that pull will do a merge in the wrong direction sometimes. Do I

RE: Beginner question on Pull is mostly evil

-Original Message- From: Junio C Hamano Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Beginner question on Pull is mostly evil No. This is most often true for people who use a single repository as a place for everybody to meet, in the same way as SVN. [snip lots of excellent

RE: Want to start using Git on my windows 7 system.

-Original Message- Behalf Of Izundu Kingsley Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 8:08 AM Subject: Want to start using Git on my windows 7 system. Good Afternoon, am very curious about how powerful git can serve programmers and computer users. I will be glad if am helped with the git

RE: Globbing for ignored branches?

-Original Message- Behalf Of Markus Trippelsdorf Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 1:01 AM Subject: Globbing for ignored branches? I would like to ignore branches that match a certain pattern, e.g.: [snip] Is it possible to ignore all branches that match hjl? If you mean ignore

RE: Problem importing from SVN repository with branches/tags at multiple levels using git-svn

-Original Message- Behalf Of Robert Hancock Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:03 AM Subject: Re: Problem importing from SVN repository with branches/tags at multiple levels using git-svn On 01/15/2014 02:10 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: We have an SVN repository that has a

Suggestion for git reference page

The master reference TOC page at http://git-scm.com/docs links to all the associated command reference pages, except it seems to be missing a link for gitrevisions(7) (http://git-scm.com/docs/gitrevisions.html). I've never submitted a patch and thought I would learn how... except the website

RE: git svn clone with funky tags layout

-Original Message- From: Michael J Gruber [mailto:g...@drmicha.warpmail.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 6:03 AM To: Jim Garrison; git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: git svn clone with funky tags layout Jim Garrison venit, vidit, dixit 05.11.2013 18:16: I'm doing a one-time

git svn clone with funky tags layout

I'm doing a one-time migration of an svn project. For historical reasons our repo layout is weird: trunk/reporting/reporting_app tags/something_else tags/reporting_app-2.3.45 tags/reporting_app-2.4.46 tags/reporting_app-2.4.0 tags/reporting_app-2.4.1

git svn clone reprocessing old commits many times?

I'm trying to clone an svn repository to git in preparation for a migration to git, including all branches and tags. The clone is taking a long time, and it looks like every time it detects a possible branch point it backs up and reprocesses a bunch of old commits. For example: r43224 =

Documentation for fetch, url, branches, tags keywords in git config?

A typical config [svn-remote svn] noMetadata = 1 url = http://repository.url/svn fetch = trunk/etl_app:refs/remotes/etl_app/trunk branches = branches/etl_app/*:refs/remotes/branches/* tags = tags/etl_app/*:refs/remotes/tags/* However, the manpage for

RE: Documentation for fetch, url, branches, tags keywords in git config?

, October 29, 2013 12:37 PM To: Jim Garrison Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Documentation for fetch, url, branches, tags keywords in git config? On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 07:23:20PM +, Jim Garrison wrote: A typical config [svn-remote svn] noMetadata = 1 url = http