[vtk-developers] Stupid git question #1

[Bill Lorensen]

Do not fear, this is not the VTK repository...

I get the message:
 git status
# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
#
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

What does that mean?

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> It works.
>
> Maybe I have messed up my remote repository,
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:33 PM, David E DeMarle
> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Does:
>>
>> git checkout Hybrid
>>
>> not work?
>>
>> On my system it recursively restores the whole Hybrid directory from
>> my Index into my working directory. Then I am back to where I was
>> before I "rm -rf"'d it.
>>
>> 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 4:27 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>>>> 28 Corporate Drive
>>>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>>>> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:56 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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