Re: Question about git

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Tirumurti Vasudevan <agnihot3 gmail com> wrote:
> same thing is happening with gnome-utils with git status
>
> i wanted to run git diff AUTHORS but i cant see the end of the list. i
> dont return to the command prompt. i expanded the screen size and more
> lines appear.
>  I opened a tab and wrote git diff AUTHORS
>
> i get
> drtv narayana:~/git/gnome-utils/po$ git diff AUTHORS
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'AUTHORS': unknown revision or path not in
> the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
> drtv narayana:~/git/gnome-utils/po$

I think I was not clean enough. The 'git diff' command takes as argument a file,
so 'AUTHORS' is an example of such a file. In your previous e-mail I
could see that
the 'AUTHORS' file was modified, thus I asked you to run 'git diff AUTHORS'.
In your current state, if you see a file that appears modified but did
not modify yourself,
you can run 'git diff modifiedfile'.

In your last reply to Claude you hint that you managed to solve the issue with
the many modified files. When you transfer files through a USB stick,
it is good to compress then
to .tar.gz. You can do this from the UI (uses 'file-roller'). This is
also true when you transfer
whole repositories.

Simos

>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Simos Xenitellis
> <simos lists googlemail com> wrote:
>> In addition, since git claims that a file such as 'AUTHORS' is modified,
>> you can request from git to show the modifications. You can do
>>
>> git diff AUTHORS
>>
>> I am really puzzled as to what the changes might be.
>>
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