From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: making a branch with just one file and keeping its whole history
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:08:57 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807211907270.8986@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20080721T161926-61@post.gmane.org>
Hi,
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Eric Raible wrote:
> <ncrfgs <at> tin.it> writes:
>
> > I have a working local repository and I'd like to make a branch with
> > just one file (let's say path2/filename2) and to keep its whole
> > history.
>
> http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/empty-branches
Beware! This is one of the sites that triggered my mail about considering
teaching plumbing to new users harmful.
In other words, I think that these "git casts" are not really the best way
to teach Git to new users, but rather confusing.
Which is a pity, because they are nicely done otherwise.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-21 4:18 making a branch with just one file and keeping its whole history ncrfgs
2008-07-21 16:19 ` Eric Raible
2008-07-21 18:08 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-07-21 18:22 ` Eric Raible
2008-07-21 18:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-22 2:14 ` extracting the history of a single file as a new project [Was: Re: making a branch with just one file and keeping its whole] ncrfgs
2008-07-22 6:15 ` Sverre Rabbelier
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