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From: Rich Pixley <rich.pixley@palm.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>,
	Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>, "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Seth Robertson <in-gitvger@baka.org>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Newbie grief
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 11:31:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA2CF18.5090509@palm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s2h4EY3Qu2+Ys_n3TUzmyykMkG-wMoqmKg5hjg24JQ+bg@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/1/12 16:30 , Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Rich Pixley<rich.pixley@palm.com>  wrote:
>
>> I'm not asking for anything new.  I'm asking for something that's as capable
>> as what we've had for years now.
> So you are basically saying; "I want to do X *exactly* like I do it in
> mercurial, and that's not easy in git".
Well, no, I'm saying that I want to do it at all, and that's not easy in 
git.
> Well, duh, that's because git is not mercurial. Why don't you do it
> the _git way_? That would be easy.
That would be great, except that it's not easy.  It's a mess.

I do have a partial solution now, thanks to the list.  It's just a bit 
messier and non-intuitive since I have to work around the limitations of 
git.

--rich

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-30 22:30 Newbie grief Rich Pixley
2012-04-30 23:31 ` Seth Robertson
2012-05-01  1:15   ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01  1:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01  1:55       ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01  3:44     ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-05-01 11:14       ` Ted Ts'o
2012-05-01 16:13         ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-05-01 18:15           ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 18:20             ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 18:52               ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-02 21:28                 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-05-01 18:42             ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 20:52               ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 21:05                 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 21:12                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01 21:25                     ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 21:28                       ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 21:57                         ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 22:56                           ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 23:55                             ` Philip Oakley
2012-05-03 16:08                               ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 18:20                                 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 23:04                                   ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 23:06                                     ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 18:46                             ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 21:09                             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-03 22:44                               ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 22:53                                 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-03 22:59                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 19:23                                 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 19:30                             ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 19:41                               ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 21:29                   ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 21:39                     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 22:07                       ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 22:17                         ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-05-01 23:01                         ` PJ Weisberg
2012-05-03 18:43                           ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 19:09                             ` Nathan Gray
2012-05-03 19:16                               ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 20:14                                 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-03 20:52                                   ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 15:56                                     ` Mark Brown
2012-05-04 18:23                                       ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 19:14                                         ` Jakub Narebski
2012-05-04 20:00                                         ` Mark Brown
2012-05-02 14:21                         ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-02 15:21                           ` Michael Witten
2012-05-03 12:23                             ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 12:53                               ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-03 16:09                               ` Michael Witten
2012-05-03 16:20                                 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 16:44                                   ` Michael Witten
2012-05-03 18:26                                   ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 19:33                                     ` Ted Ts'o
2012-05-01 23:30                     ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-03 18:31                       ` Rich Pixley [this message]
2012-05-03 18:58                       ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 14:09                         ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-05-04 14:59                           ` Stephen Bash
2012-05-04 16:29                             ` Mark Brown
2012-05-04 19:13                         ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-01 18:03         ` Rich Pixley
     [not found]       ` <4FA01C73.5000909@palm.com>
2012-05-02  0:44         ` Sitaram Chamarty
     [not found]   ` <4F9F28F5.2020403@palm.com>
2012-05-01  1:37     ` Seth Robertson
2012-05-01  3:04       ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01  5:32         ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01  6:21           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01  6:24             ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 17:29             ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 17:33           ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 19:13           ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 20:19             ` Ronan Keryell
2012-05-03 21:13               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-03 22:23                 ` Ronan Keryell
2012-05-03 22:33                 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 22:39                   ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04  1:01                     ` Illia Bobyr
2012-05-04  3:13                       ` Nathan Gray
2012-05-04  4:35                         ` Michael Witten
2012-05-04  5:25                           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 10:09                             ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-05-04 14:50                               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 17:39                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 16:46                               ` Nathan Gray
2012-05-04 17:17                                 ` Illia Bobyr
2012-05-04 18:10                               ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 17:57                           ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 19:22                             ` Michael Witten
2012-05-04 19:18                         ` Andrew Sayers
2012-05-04 18:57             ` Jérôme Benoit
2012-05-04 20:03             ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 20:27               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 20:45                 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 21:29                   ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 22:05                     ` Felipe Contreras
2012-04-30 23:35 ` Jan Krüger
2012-05-01 18:59   ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-02  8:25 ` Philippe Vaucher

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