git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

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

From
JWJeff Whiteside <jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 30, 2008, 22:03 UTC
Message-ID
<3ab397d0812301403y53e0aecbo7f1e153ad3b76de5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<gje4ff$ip6$4@ger.gmane.org>
Show 5 quoted lines
>> good news, use "git checkout versionA", not "git checkout versionA ."
>> (so, use it wihtout the dot), and you should be back in working order.
>
> ** yes but I don't get the files copied out into the tree which is all my
> little heart ever desired

you dont "get the files copied out into the tree"... i have zero idea what that means wihtout punctuation and context, but i'm pretty sure that you want to do a "git checkout versionA", not "git checkout versionA .". if i'm wrong, then maybe try a git clean?

> But you're right - chances of using are slim - but you could say that about
> every version sitting in any given SCM repo.
> Thats why we have SCM, and why we insure our cars etc etc. :-)
i punish myself for saying what i did.  shame on me.  you're totally right.
Previous: ZorbaNext: Daniel Barkalow
Message 13 of 21 in “for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-)”
  1. ZorbaDec 27, 2008
  2. ZorbaDec 28, 2008
  3. Jeff WhitesideDec 29, 2008
  4. ZorbaDec 30, 2008
  5. Jeff WhitesideDec 30, 2008
  6. ZorbaDec 30, 2008
  7. Sitaram ChamartyDec 30, 2008
  8. ZorbaDec 30, 2008
  9. ZorbaDec 30, 2008
  10. ZorbaDec 30, 2008
  11. Jeff WhitesideDec 30, 2008
  12. ZorbaDec 30, 2008
  13. Jeff WhitesideDec 30, 2008
  14. Daniel BarkalowDec 30, 2008
  15. ZorbaDec 31, 2008
  16. ZorbaDec 30, 2008
  17. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Dec 30, 2008
  18. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Dec 30, 2008
  19. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Dec 30, 2008
  20. Sitaram ChamartyDec 31, 2008
  21. Daniel BarkalowDec 30, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.