Re: [git-users] Get file SHA just prior to tag

2014-06-16 Thread John Fisher
Pierre, Gergely, Dale Thanks very much, somehow I missed your responses until this morning. I have passed on your suggestions and I think satisfied the boss. for now. On Saturday, June 14, 2014 4:30:17 AM UTC-7, Pierre-François CLEMENT wrote: Le mercredi 11 juin 2014 18:50:07 UTC+2, John

[git-users] Re: Regarding git repository disk space consumption

2014-06-11 Thread John Fisher
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:10:43 AM UTC-7, chetna chaudhari wrote: Hi, I read a line about git in https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-large-files article * In addition, if a repository is 10 GB in size, Git's architecture requires another 10 GB of

Re: [git-users] Get file SHA just prior to tag

2014-06-10 Thread John Fisher
On Monday, June 9, 2014 12:36:57 PM UTC-7, Dale Worley wrote: You're not clear what the question is. You ask which version of a file is in the tag and the answer is the version with hash 990c3e0f7efc8ddf869dbb39ba0065c9e9578df4. Do you mean Which commit introduced that version of

Re: [git-users] Get file SHA just prior to tag

2014-06-10 Thread John Fisher
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 11:55:04 AM UTC-7, Dale Worley wrote: I think what will work is: 1) Find the first commit before the tag that has a different content for the file: $ git log -n 1 tagname^ -- filename commit b3282e06e39e1ddaa44806eadbfac06a19fabe09 ... 2) Find the SHA

[git-users] Get file SHA just prior to tag

2014-06-09 Thread John Fisher
This topic has been covered before, but not quite to the problem I have: basic Q: *command line to get SHA of file immediately prior to tagname without using dates?* Linux environment. My user insists on command-line ( he's the boss); he's used to CVS and its weird revision numbers per file.

Re: [git-users] worlds slowest git repo- what to do?

2014-05-19 Thread John Fisher
Duy Nguyen , I have 7700 files in the git repo. Add is much much faster than commit -m text . My most-populous git repos has 57K files (its an operating system) and I have no issues with the 57K repo. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for

Re: [git-users] worlds slowest git repo- what to do?

2014-05-16 Thread John Fisher
On 05/16/2014 03:13 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org wrote: From: John Fisher fishook2...@gmail.com I assert based on one piece of evidence ( a post from a facebook dev) that I now have the worlds biggest and slowest git repository

[git-users] worlds slowest git repo- what to do?

2014-05-15 Thread John Fisher
I assert based on one piece of evidence ( a post from a facebook dev) that I now have the worlds biggest and slowest git repository, and I am not a happy guy. I used to have the worlds biggest CVS repository, but CVS can't handle multi-G sized files. So I moved the repo to git, because we are

Re: [git-users] worlds slowest git repo- what to do?

2014-05-15 Thread John Fisher
/15/2014 12:06 PM, Philip Oakley wrote: From: John Fisher fishook2...@gmail.com I assert based on one piece of evidence ( a post from a facebook dev) that I now have the worlds biggest and slowest git repository, ... At the moment some of the developers are looking to speed up some of the code

Re: [git-users] need explanation diff /describe behavior

2013-05-07 Thread John Fisher
T On 05/05/2013 10:16 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:09:30PM +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: [...] I cannot explain why you observe a whole-file difference in the first case. Two speculative guesses: Thanks, will be back with more questions most likely. --

Re: [git-users] need explanation diff /describe behavior

2013-05-07 Thread John Fisher
On 05/05/2013 10:09 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: The call `git diff SDK_0.0 Makefile`, unless Makefile can be parsed as a revision, will compare the state of Makefile as recorded by a commit to which SDK_0.0 resolves with its state in the work tree. yes I see, and in fact it shows the

Re: [git-users] need explanation diff /describe behavior

2013-05-03 Thread John Fisher
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[git-users] Two strategies for a new project.

2013-03-26 Thread John Fisher
We are a small development shop. We are starting a brand-new Linux-only project in Git, and we only have experience of one year and one large project with Git. My boss is the lead on this project and is accustomed to command-line CVS. Because our projects are very large and complex and we have