[git-users] Re: How can I verify a specific git install tar file with the ".tar.sign" file?

2017-06-22 Thread David Karr
verify them. > > On Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 5:43:32 PM UTC+2, David Karr wrote: >> >> At https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ , there are tar files >> (both .xz and .gz compressed), and "sign" files. I assume the "sign" file >> is

[git-users] How can I verify a specific git install tar file with the ".tar.sign" file?

2017-06-22 Thread David Karr
At https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ , there are tar files (both .xz and .gz compressed), and "sign" files. I assume the "sign" file is a signature used to verify the tar file. The documentation does mention that there are signature files that can be used to verify the

[git-users] Strategies for adding same changes added to master to a release branch

2017-02-09 Thread David Karr
I just successfully merged a pull request branch to our master branch, but our release branch, which was branched from master a couple of weeks ago (bad sign already) also needs those changes. The changes were small, so I could easily do all this manually, but what are some reasonable

[git-users] Why are HEAD and Index described as trees in the standard git documentation?

2016-11-07 Thread David Karr
This may be a meaningless pedantic argument, but I noticed that the standard git documentation talks about "The Three Trees", being "HEAD", "Index", and "Working Directory". I'm aware of the fact that the internal data structure is a tree, but it seems very strange to refer to "HEAD" and

[git-users] When is it reasonable to advise developers NOT to fork the main repo to create feature branches from?

2016-11-07 Thread David Karr
I'm working with a team that is new to git. I'm not "new" to git, but I wouldn't describe myself as an expert. However, I've used almost every popular SCM tool that came before, since there were SCM tools. Their original process was very primitive, simply committing and pushing directly to

Re: [git-users] Struggling with cleanly "resetting" a local repo

2016-10-25 Thread David Karr
ote repo, but it still ignored the several leftover peer directories that I'm referring to here. > B > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:11 PM, David Karr <davidmic...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > When I first cloned a remote repo, it had several subdirectories, and I &g

[git-users] Struggling with cleanly "resetting" a local repo

2016-10-25 Thread David Karr
When I first cloned a remote repo, it had several subdirectories, and I had Eclipse create projects automatically. Since that time, all but one of those subdirectories have been removed from master. I want to just reset my local repo to match the remote, but try as I might, it just is not