Re: My first push

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Dienstag, 8. April 2008 schrieb Trevor Daniels:
> I've not been able to work out how to push the changes to just a single
> file or directory - I presume that's possible?  

Well, not really. A git repository is practically a stack of patches, in the 
order in which they are applied... You can only easily push a whole branch, 
not single commits (since they depend on each other) and not single 
files/dirs. There is something called "cherry-picking" in git, but I haven't 
looked into that too much.

> Do you have a recommended way of working?  I'll only be changing the
> documentation files.

What I usually do is to work in separate local branches (switching between 
them is really easy, just a git checkout branchname). When I'm confident that 
something is ready for the master branch, I simply use "git-format-patch 
origin" in the working branch, switch to the master branch, pull there, apply 
only the patch that I want in the master branch (using qgit) and push the 
master branch.

Of course, every now and then I need to clean up my local working branches by 
doing a hard reset to master and then only re-applying those patches, which 
are still relevant.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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