Re: [EGIT PATCH] Add support for writing/appending .gitignore file

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Apr 20, 2009, 17:09 UTC
Message-ID: <200904201909.38766.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D1840C4-B04C-4D75-9A01-BDCDC40D0A29@gmail.com>

måndag 20 april 2009 09:55:54 skrev Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@gmail.com>:

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> On 20 Apr 2009, at 07:32, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> 
> > måndag 20 april 2009 04:40:42 skrev Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@gmail.com 
> > >:
> >> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Robin Rosenberg
> >> <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> wrote:
> >> One advantage of attaching issues is you don't have MUA problems :-)
> >> I'll try and get a patch to work via git-send-email later.
> >
> > The problem is review. With e-mail I can just hit reply and comment  
> > on your
> > patch. Did your try the SMTP interface to gmail? I think e-mailing  
> > inlined patches is
> > a nearly perfect. Inline-attachment is ok with me. That makes it  
> > possible to
> > comment on them like any email in my mail program.
> 
> Right, but the same approach is possible in a bug tracking system -  
> just comment. And people get a notification that a change has

I haven't seen that. Obviously a bugtracker could cite the patch, but I don't know any that do.

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> apple:egit alex$ git status
> # On branch master
> # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 9 commits.
> #
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
> 
> apple:egit alex$ git rebase -i origin/master
> Working tree is dirty
> apple:egit alex$ git rebase -i d0fd6f96b9311b972c6bffa8680544607d7e3c56
> Working tree is dirty
> apple:egit alex$
> 
> I'm probably doing something obviously wrong here, but I don't know  
> how to understand the difference between 'working tree is dirty' and  
> 'working directory clean', especially since git status (or git commit - 
> a) doesn't show any differences.

"obviously" isn't the right word here, or status and rebase would agree on the cleanliness. If you are using bash I strong suggest you enable the nice bash prompt with some status information. It's in <gIt>/contrib/completion if you have the Git source. In a packaged version you can probably can source /etc/bash_completion. It will tell you what branch you are on and state-information, like whether a rebase is in progress or not (you would get a different message from rebase/status if that was the case).

> Please excuse me whilst I figure out how to get comfortable working  
> with git ...

It took me only ten minutes to find a bug the first time I used git :)

-- robin