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On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Next question... from a git newbie... is there a way to pull down the |
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> entire "files" directory with patches in one command? gitweb seems to |
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> delight in using tons of fancy HTML to format a cute layout. |
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Trying to find deleted files using the web interface is going to be |
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painful. Ditto for doing numerous operations at once. |
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mkdir someplace |
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cd someplace |
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git clone https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git . |
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cd app-emulation/qemu |
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git whatchanged . |
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(Scroll down to see the numerous old versions until you find one you |
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want. If you find a commit that deletes a file you're interested in |
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(letter D next to the file), just go down one commit further to find |
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the most recent version of it. |
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For this example let's say that we scrolled down and were interested |
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in "app-emulation/qemu/qemu-2.8.0-r10.ebuild." This was deleted in |
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commit 3ebfbe4800b59d6cf81a3a2f4e1a9a2e641343f3. The commit before |
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this is fcd530acbc593e4793e7d5b0f5b7ad757de899f8. (Note that this |
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wasn't the previous commit for the entire tree, just the last one that |
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touched anything below the qemu directory, which is just as good since |
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the later commits don't change anything we care about anyway.) |
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git checkout fcd530acbc593e4793e7d5b0f5b7ad757de899f8 |
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(You're now sitting in the portage tree as it existed at the time that |
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qemu-2.8.0-r10.ebuild was around. That includes everything in files, |
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the Manifest, and so on. You can just copy whatever you want to your |
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overlay or otherwise make use of it.) |
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The only real downside to this is that the repository is large-ish, at |
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1.3G right now. |
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The instructions above will only show data post-git. You obviously |
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already know how to view the old CVS files online. However, you can |
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also view those in git - there are instructions on the wiki for doing |
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so. |
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IMO anybody really interested in FOSS would benefit from learning git. |
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It is ubiquitous these days. |
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