Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-)

On Tuesday 2008 December 30 15:49:22 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

This may be what you want: (commands) mkdir test && cd test && git init &&

echo 'ABC' > ABC.txt && echo 'AC' > AC.txt && echo 'BC' > BC.txt && echo 'C' > C.txt &&

find -name '*C*' -print0 | xargs -r0 -- git add -- && git commit -m '"C" files.' && git branch versionC master &&

git checkout -b versionA master &&
find -type f -not -wholename '*.git*' -not -name '*A*' -print0 | \
	xargs -r0 -- git rm -- &&
git commit -m 'Removed non-"A" files.' &&

git checkout -b versionB &&
find -type f -not -wholename '*.git*' -not -name '*B*' -print0 | \
	xargs -r0 -- git rm -- &&
git commit -m 'Removed non-"B" files.' &&

git checkout -b versionD master &&
find -type f -not -wholename '*.git*' -not -name '*D*' -print0 | \
	xargs -r0 -- git rm -- && git commit -m 'Removed non-"D" files.' &&

git checkout master && git branch -v --abbrev=4 && ls -l && git checkout versionA && ls -l && git checkout versionB && ls -l && git checkout versionC && ls -l && git checkout versionD && ls -l

(output)
/home/bss/test
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/bss/test/.git/
Created initial commit 8dbf3a1: All files.
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 ABC.txt
 create mode 100644 AC.txt
 create mode 100644 BC.txt
 create mode 100644 C.txt
Switched to a new branch "versionA"
rm 'BC.txt'
rm 'C.txt'
Created commit a06e10c: Removed non-"A" files.
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 BC.txt
 delete mode 100644 C.txt
Switched to a new branch "versionB"
rm 'AC.txt'
Created commit 2029ca2: Removed non-"B" files.
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 AC.txt
Switched to a new branch "versionD"
rm 'ABC.txt'
rm 'AC.txt'
rm 'BC.txt'
rm 'C.txt'
Created commit 1793ba0: Removed non-"D" files.
 4 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 ABC.txt
 delete mode 100644 AC.txt
 delete mode 100644 BC.txt
 delete mode 100644 C.txt
Switched to branch "master"
* master   8dbf "C" files.
  versionA a06e Removed non-"A" files.
  versionB 2029 Removed non-"B" files.
  versionC 8dbf "C" files.
  versionD 1793 Removed non-"D" files.
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 4 2008-12-30 16:10 ABC.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 3 2008-12-30 16:10 AC.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 3 2008-12-30 16:10 BC.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 2 2008-12-30 16:10 C.txt
Switched to branch "versionA"
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 4 2008-12-30 16:10 ABC.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 3 2008-12-30 16:10 AC.txt
Switched to branch "versionB"
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 4 2008-12-30 16:10 ABC.txt
Switched to branch "versionC"
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 4 2008-12-30 16:10 ABC.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 3 2008-12-30 16:10 AC.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 3 2008-12-30 16:10 BC.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bss users 2 2008-12-30 16:10 C.txt
Switched to branch "versionD"
total 0