Re: My Embarrasingly Stupid Git question....(*)

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 31, 2005, 19:58 UTC
Message-ID: <7vacixanew.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1125506707.13577.29.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>

Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> writes:

> (*) -- I knew I didn't need to bother the list with this
>     question.  And that as soon as I asked for external help,
>     the answer would become clear. Sorry to have bothered you.

That's OK. As I stated before, the primary motivation that got me involved in git was to help people who do Linux kernel, so any question regarding the Linus kernel tree extracted from a copy of his git repository is welcome here, at least to me.

I do not know Cogito very well. I keep the latest Cogito source around all the time so that I can figure things out whenever need arises by reading it. Most of the time, I would not offhand know answers to questions like "what does cg-rm do and what's the difference between it and 'cvs rm'".

Using the core GIT tools only, the sequence of what you did would have been:

------------------------------------------------ $ git clone <url> <dir> && cd <dir> $ git checkout -b jdl master $ rm include/asm-ppc/sockios.h $ rm include/asm-ppc/socket.h $ rm include/asm-ppc64/sockios.h $ rm include/asm-ppc64/socket.h $ git add include/asm-powerpc/sockios.h $ git add include/asm-powerpc/socket.h $ git commit -a -s ------------------------------------------------