getting started, happy with cmd line on windows [Scanned]

From: Conor Rafferty <conor.rafferty@altmore.co.uk>
Date: Dec 26, 2008, 13:44 UTC
Message-ID: <BB5F02FD3789B54E8964D38D6775E718242D07@ALTMORE-SVR.altmore.local>

We want to use git to a) archive old versions of our project that have till now had no SCM applied b) moving forward, provide robust SCM on new versions of project

Just to get familiar, I created a folder, ran

$ git init

then created a few files: ABC.txt, AC.txt, BC.txt, C.txt This mimics our real life sitch for purpose (a), files are in version A, but not in version B, which introduces new files, whick might not be in version C

$ git add *c*.txt $ git commit -m "version A"

so now ABC.txt and AC.txt are in the repo, at a commit with comment "version A"

$ git show

confirms this

$ git status

confirms that BC.txt and C.txt have not been tracked - great, as designed

I then deleted all files from the working directory, so I can pull out ONLY the ones in version A. I tried both fetch and checkout - but nothing was copied into working dir How do I do this ?

NB along the way I also tagged this first commit as "tag_versionA" also tried

$ git checkout tag_versionA which changed HEAD back to version A, but didn't create the files

Seems like I'm missing some fundamental concepts here - from other SCM's, I understood fetch or checkout would copy files into your working dir that were replicas of the versions stored in repository

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