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A basic question

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JVJim Vahl <jv@wmdb.com>
Date
Oct 10, 2012, 18:03 UTC
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All,

Our company is researching version control software, something which we have not used previously. I have a very basic question about git which I have not been able to answer from reading. As I understand it, a git repository can be a mixture of files which are under development, staged or committed. If we make a new build of our product we will obviously only want to include the committed (tested) files.

The question is this: what is the usual procedure to retrieve a set of committed files only from the repository to place into a distribution or "ready to build" folder. The same question goes for tagging a release: how does the user get the tag to reference the committed files only and not the most recent files which may be under development or undergoing testing.

Thanks,
Jim Vahl
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