On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 11:03 -0700, Jim Vahl wrote: > All, > > Our company is researching version control software, something which we have > not used previously. I have a very basic question about git which I have > not been able to answer from reading. As I understand it, a git repository > can be a mixture of files which are under development, staged or committed. > If we make a new build of our product we will obviously only want to include > the committed (tested) files. > > The question is this: what is the usual procedure to retrieve a set of > committed files only from the repository to place into a distribution or > "ready to build" folder. The same question goes for tagging a release: how > does the user get the tag to reference the committed files only and not the > most recent files which may be under development or undergoing testing. > > Thanks, > > Jim Vahl Jim, Have you looked at http://git-scm.com/book yet? It sounds to me like you have some misconceptions about how Git works. (If so, did it leave you more or less confused?) -- -Drew Northup ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html