[vtk-developers] Stupid git question #1

[Bill Lorensen]

OK, let we be a bit more specific.

I cloned the VTK repository.
After a while I did
git pull

Now I'm up to date.

Now I
rm -rf Hybrid

How do I get it back!


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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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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