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Re: Newbie falls at first hurdle

From
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Date
Sep 17, 2005, 17:01 UTC
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<200509171801.35612.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
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On Saturday 17 Sep 2005 17:50, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:
> > The editor file that came up with this listed all the files it was going
> > to commit INCLUDING some .files from the root directory (I am using
> > eclipse, so I had files like .project and .classpath there).  It says in
> > the Documentation that git ignores those - has it done?
>
> We ignore '.git' but we let you have paths starting with dots
> these days -- the change happened quite a while ago and if some
> documentation still says we do not, then you spotted a
> documentation bug.

I think that is probably my problem. I deleted all of /usr/local/bin (which had an earlier version of git in it) and then tried to re-install git 99.6. When I got a permissions error I gave up and installed into ~/bin.

But of course - that probably means that the man pages are old ones from when I last installed git (very early in the development cycle).

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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  1. Alan ChandlerSep 17, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2005
  3. Alan ChandlerSep 17, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2005
  5. Alan ChandlerSep 17, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisSep 18, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2005
  8. Improve git-update-index error reportingPetr Baudis, Sep 18, 2005

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