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From: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com>
To: John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@tradestation.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How is git used as other than the project's version control?
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:06:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18071eea0904271606t4757a01di40e7b0cf6c558bea@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70AE3EC48@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com>

2009/4/27 John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@tradestation.com>:
> But what about using it as a tool, wielded separately from applying
> those tools to a git repository infrastructure?  For example, use it to
> separate out hunks and untangle mixed work.  You could do this even if
> your directory has nothing to do with git normally.

What is it you're really asking here?  I use "git diff" all the time
outside of $GIT_DIR for instance -- invaluable, and was designed
deliberately that way.

-- Thomas Adam

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-27 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-27 22:55 How is git used as other than the project's version control? John Dlugosz
2009-04-27 23:06 ` Thomas Adam [this message]
2009-04-27 23:10   ` John Dlugosz
2009-04-27 23:25     ` Thomas Adam
2009-04-28  1:44 ` Jeff King
2009-04-28  7:02   ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-28  4:29 ` Octavio Alvarez
2009-04-28  8:31 ` Mike Ralphson
2009-04-28 10:53 ` Matthieu Moy

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