From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Chandler Subject: Re: little conundrum Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:30:28 +0000 Message-ID: <200511031930.28929.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> References: <200511031741.20496.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> <200511031848.58040.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> <20051103191652.GA28273@bohr.gbar.dtu.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 03 20:33:55 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EXknA-00086D-T7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:30:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030455AbVKCTaa (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:30:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030456AbVKCTaa (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:30:30 -0500 Received: from 82-44-22-127.cable.ubr06.croy.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.44.22.127]:54473 "EHLO home.chandlerfamily.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030455AbVKCTa3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:30:29 -0500 Received: from kanger.home ([192.168.0.21]) by home.chandlerfamily.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EXkn6-0006Ir-Ks for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:30:28 +0000 To: git@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 In-Reply-To: <20051103191652.GA28273@bohr.gbar.dtu.dk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thursday 03 Nov 2005 19:16, Peter Eriksen wrote: > > Perhaps something like this is better (now I actually tried it out): > > ]rm -rf linux-2.6/.git > ]cp -r linux-2.6 peter-2.6 > ...Initialize a repo in linux-2.6 with cg-init or similar and commit. > ...Remove, add and change files in peter-2.6. > ]mv linux-2.6/.git peter-2.6/.git > ]cd peter-2.6/ > ]git-status > > How does this work for you? This is the same as before. It lists the modified files, but it doesn't tell you about any added or deleted files. [I have done this manually now - originally I thought that there were quite a few files - but once I had stripped out things like "tags" and some spurious directories that were empty it ended up being only three files:-). So its only an intellectual exercise now:-)] -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.