Re: Git help, please

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Git help, please


> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> git clone /my/repository /tmp/checkingplace
>
> cd /tmp/checkingplace
> test test test
> cd ~
> rm -rf /tmp/checkingplace


Whilst I always appreciate yours and Graham's help, this has been an 
absolute masterclass in "answering a question I didn't ask".  I wasn't 
looking to create an alternative clone, since I already have one in my 
alternative user which I had been using for patchy.  I feel I do need to 
understand git better (as you know) and I thought that using a remote branch 
to test my LSR update would be a great example of this.  I also need to 
learn how to revert, and ditto applies.

As a BTW - does cloning as above fetch the whole repo, or just recreate it 
locally?

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Phil Holmes