[haiku-development] Re: GIT help
- From: Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 18:39:11 -0700
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 09:15:14PM -0400, John Scipione wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> >
> > I'll have to do a commit at some point, I guess, but the description of
> > 'git format-patch' didn't sound to be what I wanted
>
> git format-patch is what you want, it will create a diff with some
> information added such as the author's name and email address so that when
> the patch is applied with git apply the author of the patch will be
> preserved. This works a bit differently than svn where you create a patch
> using svn diff.
Is this what others are using to attach to tickets then? As I have a correct
diff
at this point, and the directory is going to have to be moved in the repository
by someone anyway (moved from "tests" to "apps"), I think that'll do for now.
>
> When you run git add on a file you add it to the staging area to be
> committed, either because it is new to the repo or because it has been
> modified.
>
>
> To stage a file to be deleted from the repository run git rm <file>. If you
> have already deleted the file from disk using rm, or if you want to delete
> the file from the repo but leave it on disk run git rm --cache <file>
> instead. Since you said you deleted those files already you should use the
> --cache version in this case.
OK, thanks. Did that, and it seems to have achieved what I want.
Still confusing to me, though, as I thought 'add' told the 'index' about files,
and 'rm' told it not to care about them. Oh, well. I guess I'll learn the
magic
words eventually. (:-/)
-- Pete --
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