git-pull

I'm curious what's the best practice of keeping your occasional contributions to an OSS project in git (e.g., on github/bitbucket/gitlab), whilst the upstream is exclusively CVS. My take is that it's very convenient to simply commit CVS/{Entries,Repository,Root} directly into git , and then at any time and from any box, you can simply checkout your git repo (w/ git ), and then update from the real upstream with cvs up , which is exactly what I do with my OpenBSD ports-readmes fork , as well as mdocml . However, I've noticed that most people are quite surprised and puzzled to see these CVS

I've lost files added to git during "merge conflict" phase. Step by step: git pull git status Git informs me about "merge conflict", that's okay. Then I create a new file and add it to git. vi test.txt git add test.txt After that, abort merge: git merge --abort I have not found the file "test.txt" neither in directory, nor via "git fsck", nor "git reflog". Is it possible to restore the file? What have you tried with git fsck ? see this SO question : Recover files that were added to the index but then removed by a git reset The general answer is : the sequence of instructions you typed has

Is it possible to pull specific files or changes from another users working directory using thier Local IP address? e.g. git pull http://192.168.1.101/sandbox/somefile.php It should be noted that both users are using Windows XP. Thanks, P. Thanks to the response of both Rup's answer and eckes's answer, I've come up with the following so far: You'll need to know the IP address of the users PC 192.168.x.x (this will be the in the example below) and then you'll need to share the folder in Windows XP. Right-click the desired folder you want to share on the users PC and select Properties. Select

Let's say I am on a different branch than <local-branch> , called <different-branch> . When I try to pull from a remote branch to a local branch, I do the following: git pull origin <remote-branch>:<local-branch> And, from my understanding this should pull into my <local-branch> , and not pull into <different-branch> . But, then when I check git log while I'm on <different-branch> , I see that those commits are from <remote-branch> ? How do I pull from a remote branch, into a local branch, when the local branch is different from the one that I cam currently on? Thank you. Using git pull with a

I think I understand git pull and this is how I explain it in, what I call, "simple terms": Generally speaking, git pull is about merging a "remote" branch into a "local" branch. In more detail, git uses the content of the "remote" branch to "update" / "modify" content of the "local" branch. In even more detail, if a file has been modified in the "local" branch but not in the "remote" branch, then after the merge, the content of the file will be the same as the content in the "local" branch. The opposite is also true. If a file was modified on the "remote" branch but not in the "local" branch,

I have a normal repo where there is a working tree and a .git folder in the same directory as the working tree. I'm trying to run a git command from outside this location with the command git --git-dir=/path/to/repo/.git --work-tree=/path/to/repo pull /some/other/repo master but I keep getting the error fatal: /usr/libexec/git-core/git-pull cannot be used without a working tree. . What am I doing wrong? This is a bug in earlier versions of Git. This problem should go away once you upgrade to 1.7.7.2 or later. From the commit that fixed the bug : You can't currently run git-pull or git-rebase