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

Ok, starting from scratch, new dir, new repo

I can now get $ git checkout <version> to work (see extract below, missed the first few lines due to exceeding buffer)

The difference with the instance when I found "errors" is that that time I'd run $ git checkout <version> . a few times first, which as I now know, would have been making updates to the index all along.

I presume this is what screwed things up for the normal checkout situation, because when I ran $ git checkout <version> on all the versions, there were always less files than I expected in the working dir

Still not sure if I can trust $ git checkout <version>...

Why should

$ git checkout <version> .

screw things up for

$ git checkout <version>

?

BC

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ cat > AC.txt AC

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ cat > C.txt C

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ ls ABC.txt AC.txt BC.txt C.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in w:/GITPLATFORM/swproj/.git/

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git add ABC.txt AC.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
$ git commit -m "version A"
Created initial commit 8ce0d2c: version A
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 ABC.txt
 create mode 100644 AC.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git tag versiona 8ce0

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git rm AC.txt rm 'AC.txt'

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ ls ABC.txt BC.txt C.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git add BC.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git status # On branch master # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # deleted: AC.txt # new file: BC.txt # # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # C.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
$ git commit -m "version B"
Created commit fad9c29: version B
 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 AC.txt
 create mode 100644 BC.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git tag versionB fad9

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ ls ABC.txt BC.txt C.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ cat > AC.txt AC

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ ls ABC.txt AC.txt BC.txt C.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git commit -m "version C" # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # AC.txt # C.txt nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ // mistake - forgot to stage changes sh.exe": //: is a directory

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git reset --hard versionB HEAD is now at fad9c29 version B

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ ls ABC.txt AC.txt BC.txt C.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git add *c*.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git status # On branch master # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # new file: AC.txt # new file: C.txt #

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
$ git commit -m "version C"
Created commit 9cf73cb: version C
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 AC.txt
 create mode 100644 C.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git tag versionC 9cf7

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ ls ABC.txt AC.txt BC.txt C.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git rm *.* rm 'ABC.txt' rm 'AC.txt' rm 'BC.txt' rm 'C.txt'

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ ls

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
$ git commit -m "version D"
Created commit 8e4b5be: version D
 4 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 ABC.txt
 delete mode 100644 AC.txt
 delete mode 100644 BC.txt
 delete mode 100644 C.txt

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git tag versionD 8e4b

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean)

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ gitk

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj <sionA = ABC.txt, AC.txt, version B = ABC.txt, BC.txt sh.exe": //: is a directory

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ cat > commet.txt// gitk confirms that versionA = ABC.txt, AC.txt, sh.exe": commet.txt//: No such file or directory

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ cat > comment.txt gitk confirms that: versionA = ABC.txt, AC.txt versionB = ABC.txt, BC.txt versionC = ABC.txt, AC.txt, BC.txt, C.txt versionD =

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj $ gitk

conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
$ git show
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
commit 8e4b5bed1faadc608fc114e62bf1859b6bbed4a0
Author: Conor Rafferty <cr@altmore.co.uk>
Date:   Wed Dec 31 11:40:45 2008 +0000

    version D