From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt•net>
To: Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail•com>
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon•org>,
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery•net>,
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5•se>, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail•com>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: can anybody explain the following to a git noob?
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:10:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090525111059.GE1070@macbook.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <855e4dcf0905230121h28ef22f8n4758953e612325cf@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:21:09PM +1200, Tim Uckun wrote:
> > I don't think any
> > version control system I know of likes having your initial import be of a
> > directory with other working directories for the same system as
> > subdirectories. (That is, Mercurial will be fine having git working
> > directories in the import, but git won't, and Mercurial wouldn't be happy
> > about having Mercurial working directories as subdirectories).
> >
>
> I now realize that. I did however did the same thing again but first
> deleted all the .git directories before doing a git init. The end
> result didn't change.
Note that a second git init does not delete the previous database. So if
you want to start from scratch you need to delete the main .git folder.
As already mentioned a script recreating your setup from public sources
would really be a big help to find out were git does not do what you are
expecting.
cheers Heiko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-25 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-22 3:46 can anybody explain the following to a git noob? Tim Uckun
2009-05-22 5:02 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-22 5:44 ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-22 9:35 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-22 10:35 ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-22 10:44 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-05-22 11:36 ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-22 12:04 ` Julian Phillips
2009-05-23 8:03 ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-22 12:22 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-22 17:33 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-05-23 8:21 ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-25 11:10 ` Heiko Voigt [this message]
2009-05-25 12:52 ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-22 11:03 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-05-22 13:36 ` Dan Loewenherz
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