On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:52:59AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > embarrassed to admit i don't know this, but is there a revision
> > symbol for a repo's root commit? i don't think i've ever seen that
> > mentioned anywhere.
>
> gitrevisions(7) has no
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:48:15AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > perfect example: "how do i find the Nth last version of a file?"
> > now, you can certainly do this in git, using "git log", then extract
> > the commit ID from the appropriate line and
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:52:59AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> embarrassed to admit i don't know this, but is there a revision
> symbol for a repo's root commit? i don't think i've ever seen that
> mentioned anywhere.
gitrevisions(7) has nothing, but doesn't git support many roots? How
woul
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:48:15AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> perfect example: "how do i find the Nth last version of a file?"
> now, you can certainly do this in git, using "git log", then extract
> the commit ID from the appropriate line and so on. but (AFAIK), there
> is no single comman
> > prepping for delivering upcoming git courses, and i'm adding a short
> > page for questions i get on a regular basis along the lines of "how do
> > you do X in git?" when, for the most part, i typically answer, "why
> > would you want to do that in the first place?"
>
> Like maybe locking a f
On 2016-09-28 04:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> prepping for delivering upcoming git courses, and i'm adding a short
> page for questions i get on a regular basis along the lines of "how do
> you do X in git?" when, for the most part, i typically answer, "why
> would you want to do that in t
embarrassed to admit i don't know this, but is there a revision
symbol for a repo's root commit? i don't think i've ever seen that
mentioned anywhere.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ont
prepping for delivering upcoming git courses, and i'm adding a short
page for questions i get on a regular basis along the lines of "how do
you do X in git?" when, for the most part, i typically answer, "why
would you want to do that in the first place?"
unsurprisingly, it's fairly common for
