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From: Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>
To: hs_glw <greg@hra.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Big Mess--How to use Git to resolve
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:06:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF2667F.9020600@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324147247781-7104493.post@n2.nabble.com>

On 12/17/2011 12:40 PM, hs_glw wrote:
> Randal, thank you for the comprehensive answer.

The technique Randal described sounds like the 'vendor code drop' method 
described in the git-rm manpage.  There you will find detailed 
instructions on the best way to 'erase' the previous version and drop in 
a tarball of the 'newer' version.

Hope this helps.

v/r,
neal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-21 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-17 12:32 Big Mess--How to use Git to resolve hs_glw
2011-12-17 15:33 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-12-17 18:40   ` hs_glw
2011-12-19 17:04     ` Holger Hellmuth
2011-12-21 23:06     ` Neal Kreitzinger [this message]
2011-12-21 23:44     ` Neal Kreitzinger
2011-12-21 23:56       ` Seth Robertson

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