Re: Git help, please

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Devel" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Git help, please


> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 04:53:23PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > >Don't worry about doing extra checks with patchy.  If it passes a
> > >doc build from scratch on your computer, then it's highly unlikely
> > >to cause a problem at the patchy stage.
> >
> > I have had a problem with this in the past, which is why I was
> > suggesting this route.  I had an uncommitted file on my local
> > machine that wasn't in master.  I'd not added it with commit -a or
> > whatever, and so my build was OK but patchy-staging fell over.  I
> > wanted to avoid the possibility.
>
> whoops, I forgot about that.  Just run
>  git status
> and if it doesn't complain about untracked files, you're fine.
>
> - Graham

It always complains about untracked files.  aborted_edits and git-cl as a 
minimum.  Until I moved all the LSR tarballs I'd put at the top of the 
source tree it complained about all those, too.

I've now worked out how to create a remote branch.  My next experiment will 
be to push to it.  Fingers crossed.

--
Phil Holmes