As I mentioned before, I’ve been working on and off on adding Python scripting support to GDB, with Tom Tromey and Vladimir Prus. We did the work in a git repository, separate from the GDB main repo (which still uses CVS, by the way). Now came the time to get the work we did there, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘git’
breaking code into reviewable patches
Posted in english, tagged development, gdb, git, hint, linkedin, linux, open source, planet ltc, python, scm, version control on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
take care when renaming files in git
Posted in english, tagged development, git, hint, linux, open source, version control on Thursday, January 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you rename and modify a file in the same commit, you will loose its history: http://sourceware.org/ml/frysk/2008-q1/msg00004.html You have to do a commit just with the rename operation (identical file contents), and then modify it. Sheesh, good to know about that! I recall I had a similar problem with Subversion once… I think it was [...]
a couple of git hints
Posted in english, tagged development, git, hint, open source, version control on Friday, November 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today I just discovered a new command in git which should be very useful: git-stash, which is new in git 1.5.3. It’s great for those moments when git complaints about your modified tree, but you don’t want to commit anything yet. Now you can throw your currently uncommited changes into the drawer, work in something [...]