Re: branch management

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Harry Duin, Tue, Jun 09, 2009 19:35:24 +0200:
> My questions are on branch management. 

You seem to think about branches as they are in CVS or SVN (just
directories with in-system metadata). You'll find the Git's branching
different (being more about history, not at all about directory
structure).

> 1. We have different repos for doing the integration merging. In
> addition to that we have a golden repos, containing what is in
> production. The branch history gets pushed by developers to the
> integration repos, but not to the golden repos. Since our integration
> repos are created for each integration, this means I have lost my
> branch history when an integration repos gets deleted..

No. As long as there is something, basing its history on the history
of the integration repos (and I assume that your "golden", aka
"release" or "maintenance" elsewhere, do just that) the history is
there. Forever. As it is on every developers machine with a
distributed VCS.

> 2. What command do I use to display only the list of files updated by/for a
> branch?

Do you mean the files changed since the branch (presumably "development")
diverged from some other branch (presumably "golden")?
What for?

> This means I want to exclude files that were merged in from say
> master - these files are not part of the branch development.

You better not exclude files (and while at it, stop thinking about
files when working with _history_).

Try describing the problem on _change_ (aka "commit", or point in time
or history) level.

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correct base64 and gmail does not even decode it.