Re: Git BOF notes

  Hi,

Dear diary, on Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:55:59AM CEST, I got a letter
where Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] said that...

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:

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Dear diary, on Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 02:17:48AM CEST, I got a letter
where Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] said that...

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Think "changed templates".

  it may be that I'm just tired, but I don't see what you mean, sorry.

If you change a template (like add a hook or something), you can call 
git-init-db in an existing repository to update that hook.

  ah well, I guess that's obscure enough to tell the user to directly
run git-init-db. ;-)

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And also think "setup a remote repository", especially "setup a remote
HTTP repository".

  Of course. Currently you need to tinker with environment variables,
then with hooks, possibly with permissions and stuff to make the
repository shared... Think cg-admin-setuprepo. ;-)

git-init-db --shared

And the environment variable and the chgrp and g+s. That's my point.

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And also think "start a new repository with only a _part_ of the current 
files". There are plenty reasons -- in addition to separation of concepts 
-- not to commit straight after initializing a repository.

  So what _do_ you do if you don't commit straight?

Sometimes, I do "git-push just@initted.repository.com master". From 
somewhere else, of course.

I guess that's more common for the bare repositories.

And sometimes, I do "cp -R /some/where/CVS ./; git-cvsimport".

git-cvsimport will create the repository for you, won't it?

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  Of course sometimes you don't want to add everything, and that should
still be possible to do (cg-init has a switch for that).

Usually I start small projects as a single .c or .java file. Only after a 
while, I think it is worth it to init a git database. So, I _always_ have 
generated files lying around. And I would hate it if they were checked in 
automatically. (Yeah, I could remove them, _then_ remove them from the 
index, and then git-commit --amend. Ugly.)

Can't you just do make clean before git init? Or you can prepare
.gitignore before you check stuff in, so that the autogenerated files
don't pollute your git status output. ;-)

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