Re: git along

[Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Gentlemen,
>
> The 'git' manual being longer than War and Peace, let me ask
> some simple questions:
>
>       git clone git:where-its-coming-from where-its-going-to
>
> ... simple. If I rerun it with the same target dir, will it just
> update, or will it do the full monty all over again? Would any
> files I've added be preserved, or nuked?

It will fail:

fatal: destination path 'zsh' already exists and is not an empty directory.

> Or do we:
>
>     git update ...

Inside, do "git pull" inside the checkout.

> Can we:
>
>     git just-show-me-whats-changed ... ?
>
> ... or is life just not meant to be so painless?

To see the changes since last pull, you can use "git log -p @{1}.."
(drop the -p if you are not interested in the diff).

> Is there a recommended beginner's guide to git?

Perhaps
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html

For a detailed manual, try http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

hth,
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Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>  http://chneukirchen.org