[Vm-dev] equivalent of svn export...

[Ben Coman]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On 28 Jun 2016, at 02:57, Ben Coman <btc at openInWorld.com> wrote:
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> I'm not at a computer where I can test this, but in summary I would just try...
> $ git checkout -b splitARM Cog
> $ mv build.linux32ARM build.linux32ARMv6
> $ cp -r build.linux32ARMv6 build.linux32ARMv7
> $ git add build.linux32ARMv6 build.linux32ARMv7
> $ git commit -m "Split ARM build into ARMv6/ARMv7"
> $ git diff -M -C --summary Cog
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> I’m not sure either what’s the purpose of checking out just a directory… in git, since it does global versions for commits, it does not has much sense… also git is designed to do the branching a very easy/efficient task open a new branch… and then merging back is a second-time task).
> So I suppose this is the right way to do it… I imagine that different tools means sometimes different ways of doing things, and forcing “old way” can be not as effective as it was before.
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> +1 for this step list :)
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> You might first want to
> $ cp -r oscogvm oscogvm.practice
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> why? if you made a mistake you can just kill the branch :)
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You are right.  But it can give a bit a freedom while experimenting to
build confidence with a new system.
cheers -ben