Re: [git-users] What's the best number of files within a single Git repository ?

2011-07-07 Thread Brett Viren
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:29 AM, CP wrote: > We are evaluating migration our project to Git. It is said that we > shouldn't put too many files in a single repo. or we will have > performance issue. I've never heard of problems with the numbers of files. It is well known that very large files can

Re: [git-users] Any writers out there?

2011-02-08 Thread Brett Viren
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Mark (my words) wrote: > Git compares lines: I just diff’ed versions of a poem and wondered why it > appeared I had deleted a block and replaced it with an identical block. Maybe a whitespace only change was made. You could re-try with git-diff -w -Brett. --

Re: [git-users] Any writers out there?

2011-02-07 Thread Brett Viren
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Mark (my words) wrote: > I'm new to git. I'm trying to develop a workflow for my creative writing. FWIW, I use git for just about every document I produce (report, paper, presentation). Most of the text is in LaTeX, notes using emacs's dot.org mode and sometime f

Re: [git-users] Paper on Git to Write, suggestions sought!

2010-12-06 Thread Brett Viren
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Neil Grogan wrote: > > I have a paper to write in College on a SCM system and I choose Git. > Just looking for one liners or links as to what you'd include or talk > about? Specifically in the research or improvements in Git coming up, > as I can't find much on that

Re: [git-users] Command not found

2010-11-04 Thread Brett Viren
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Gareth wrote: > > I've installed git using 'apt-get install git' - and ran fine. However > - it doesnt seem to work. If I do a whereis git it returns nothing. Wow, in all my years of using Unix and Linux I've never heard of whereis! Try "which git". FWIW, on my U

[git-users] git-svn and tracking the branches of a partially forked project

2010-10-19 Thread Brett Viren
Hi, Maybe this has nothing to do with the SVN part but I'd like some advice on how to stay in sync with multiple branches of an SVN project while maintaining my own local modifications in git. I'd like to apply my modifications starting at some early branch and then move them to each subsequent b

Re: [git-users] get rid of old commits

2010-09-29 Thread Brett Viren
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:57 AM, canna wrote: > the problem is, it's taking a lot of time for simple everyday > operations Have you run "git gc" ever? -Brett. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, se

Re: [git-users] Git Ignore

2010-07-05 Thread Brett Viren
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:50 AM, KaibutsuX wrote: > I'm committing some selenium tests for departmental use and the first > file is a login script which has two fields for user and password. It is never a good idea to put such information into code. At least move it out of the code base and into

[git-users] Suggestion for tracking non-standard SVN layout

2010-02-23 Thread Brett Viren
Hello, I have an "foreign" SVN repository that I track with git-svn. It recently reorganized to be shaped like: /top/trunk/{Package1,Package2}/ /top/tags/{Package1,Package2}/{per-package-tag1,per-package-tag2,...}/ /top/branches{Package1,Package2}/per-package-branch1,...}/ I typically work from

Re: [git-users] using git for system configuration management

2010-01-11 Thread Brett Viren
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Tobias G. Pfeiffer wrote: > I want to use git to manage the system configuration (/etc/...) for a > number of Linux servers in my network. You will want more than what git can do. Look into using Puppet. You can use git to manage the Puppet manifests. -Brett.

[git-users] Re: git-svn and --use-log-author --add-author-from = Unknown option.

2009-12-01 Thread Brett Viren
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Brett Viren wrote: > >  Unknown option: use-log-author Digging into git-svn more I see the problem. This option is only defined for "git-svn fetch" or "git-svn clone" and not "git-svn init". So it is a mismatch-bug between do

[git-users] git-svn and --use-log-author --add-author-from = Unknown option.

2009-12-01 Thread Brett Viren
Hi, I'm trying to sync one SVN repository to a sub directory of a second one using git-svn. I'll show how I'm mostly successfully doing that below. The problem I'm having is that I want the original commit author names to be preserved in the sync'ed repository. git-svn's man page talks about --

[git-users] Re: Moving repository

2009-09-08 Thread Brett Viren
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote: > > I have a git repository which is situated in $HOME. > The purpose was to store there all my more important configuration > files, but I have almost only my ".emacs.d" directory. I use a repository called "dot" that I clone to $HOME/.dot/ an