[vtk-developers] Stupid git question #1

[Bill Lorensen]

I know they are local.

But, if I screwup my local repository, how can I recover files from
the noon-local repository.

Fortunately for all, I am experimenting with a repository on gitorious...

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:19 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> Maybe you should preface your response with "Stupid git *answer* #1"
>
> Think of it like this, everyone: with cvs, *checkout* and *commit* were
> "communicate with the server" commands. Now with git, they are "communicate
> with the local repository" commands.
> checkout and commit are both now completely local operations. It's
> fetch/pull and push that go back-and-forth over the wire now.
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:08 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> no confusion, checkout will restore a file from the repository.
>>
>> [kargad:devel/ParaView/VTK] demarle% fif "*.txt" Lorensen
>> ./Copyright.txt:Copyright (c) 1993-2008 Ken Martin, Will Schroeder,
>> Bill Lorensen
>> ./Copyright.txt: * Neither name of Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, or Bill
>> Lorensen nor the names
>> ./Utilities/Doxygen/authors.txt:lorensen: Lorensen, Bill
>> (lorensen at crd.ge.com)
>> ./Utilities/EncodeString/CMakeLists.txt:# Copyright (c) Ken Martin,
>> Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
>> ./Utilities/HashSource/CMakeLists.txt:# Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will
>> Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
>> ./Utilities/ParseOGLExt/CMakeLists.txt:# Copyright (c) Ken Martin,
>> Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
>> [kargad:devel/ParaView/VTK] demarle% rm Copyright.txt
>> [kargad:devel/ParaView/VTK] demarle% rm Utilities/Doxygen/authors.txt
>> [kargad:devel/ParaView/VTK] demarle% rm
>> Utilities/EncodeString/CMakeLists.txt
>> [kargad:devel/ParaView/VTK] demarle% rm
>> Utilities/HashSource/CMakeLists.txt
>> [kargad:devel/ParaView/VTK] demarle% rm
>> Utilities/ParseOGLExt/CMakeLists.txt
>> [kargad:devel/ParaView/VTK] demarle% fif "*.txt" Lorensen
>> [kargad:devel/ParaView/VTK] demarle% git checkout Copyright.txt
>> [kargad:devel/ParaView/VTK] demarle% fif "*.txt" Lorensen
>> ./Copyright.txt:Copyright (c) 1993-2008 Ken Martin, Will Schroeder,
>> Bill Lorensen
>> ./Copyright.txt: * Neither name of Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, or Bill
>> Lorensen nor the names
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
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>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm not using the correct terminology I think.
>> >
>> > I have cloned a repository.
>> > By accident I changed or deleted a file.
>> > How do I get a copy of that file from the cloned repository?
>> >
>> > Bill
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM, David E DeMarle
>> > <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>> >> git checkout path/to/file
>> >>
>> >> David E DeMarle
>> >> Kitware, Inc.
>> >> R&D Engineer
>> >> 28 Corporate Drive
>> >> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> >> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Bill Lorensen
>> >> <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> If I accidentally  delete or modify  a file in my local repository,
>> >>> how can I undelete it. I want the equivalent of
>> >>> cvs update -C
>> >>>
>> >>> Bill
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