From: "Jeff Whiteside" <jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com>
To: Zorba <cr@altmore.co.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:03:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ab397d0812301403y53e0aecbo7f1e153ad3b76de5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gje4ff$ip6$4@ger.gmane.org>
>> good news, use "git checkout versionA", not "git checkout versionA ."
>> (so, use it wihtout the dot), and you should be back in working order.
>
> ** yes but I don't get the files copied out into the tree which is all my
> little heart ever desired
you dont "get the files copied out into the tree"... i have zero idea
what that means wihtout punctuation and context, but i'm pretty sure
that you want to do a "git checkout versionA", not "git checkout
versionA .". if i'm wrong, then maybe try a git clean?
> But you're right - chances of using are slim - but you could say that about
> every version sitting in any given SCM repo.
> Thats why we have SCM, and why we insure our cars etc etc. :-)
i punish myself for saying what i did. shame on me. you're totally right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-30 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-27 21:56 for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) Zorba
2008-12-28 1:29 ` Zorba
2008-12-29 23:05 ` Jeff Whiteside
2008-12-30 4:24 ` Zorba
2008-12-30 5:33 ` Jeff Whiteside
2008-12-30 12:19 ` Zorba
2008-12-30 5:34 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2008-12-30 16:07 ` Zorba
2008-12-30 17:22 ` Zorba
2008-12-30 17:44 ` Zorba
2008-12-30 18:35 ` Jeff Whiteside
2008-12-30 21:39 ` Zorba
2008-12-30 22:03 ` Jeff Whiteside [this message]
2008-12-30 23:29 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-12-31 0:31 ` Zorba
2008-12-30 21:27 ` Zorba
2008-12-30 21:49 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-30 22:17 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-30 22:39 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-31 1:43 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2008-12-30 19:42 ` Daniel Barkalow
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