From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:36:34 GMT
Subject: Re: A basic question
Message-ID: <1349897794.32696.15.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <001501cda711$8ab6f0a0$a024d1e0$@com>

On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 11:03 -0700, Jim Vahl wrote:
> 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

Jim,
Have you looked at http://git-scm.com/book yet? It sounds to me like you
have some misconceptions about how Git works. (If so, did it leave you
more or less confused?)

-- 
-Drew Northup
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