Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 09:11 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550710160211g5dbfa7fai95386b173edc45c3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <471454B5.7040802@bluelane.com>

On 10/16/07, Pete/Piet Delaney <pete@bluelane.com> wrote:

Show 7 quoted lines

>
> It's not quite a intuitive/familiar as with bitkeeper. I suspect I just
> need some practice. I selected a huge list if files that we use to
> filter the release with and double clicked on the file I thought showing
> to focus on that file. The I pulled down External Diff and it took for
> ever; like it's confused.
>

You shoudl select only _one_ additional revision.

The currenlty selected revision is the base + select another one (only) with CTRL + *RIGHT* click (the file list change background color) , then call external diff tool.

> Often we/I want to see the rev history for a particular file.
> How would you do that with Qgit?
>

Select the file from the file list (right bottom pane) or from the tree view (use key 't' to toggle treev view) double click on it or use context menu (right click on the file name) and that's all.

>
> Can I see just the revs for a particular file?
>

See above.

I know I'm going to tell you a very _unpopular_ thing, but, in case you have 5 minutes of spare time (yes, it doesn't take longer), open qgit then please press a nice key called 'F1', a nice handbook will appear...

I really suggest to look at it. To keep UI 'clean' a lot of features are not immediatly visible, so reading the handbook (at least the chapter's titiles) would give you a better idea of what qgit could do for you.

Show 7 quoted lines

>
> I'll get the latest and greatest. Thinks. Often the problem is
> having the current version of Qt3. My workstation is Mandrake
> 1005 Limited Edition (X11 Xinerama works on this release).
> Looks like I have Qt3 on my workstation. Would it be worthwhile
> to install Qt4 from src and try to use qgit-2.0?
>

Yes it is. There are a lot of new featrures, is almost as stable as the previous and if you are interested in file history (annotations) in qgit-2.0 this feature has been greatly speeded up.

Have fun Marco