Re: `git add <>` results in "fatal: ... is outside repository"

2019-03-11 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
Hey Anthony, Are you sure that you have 8.3 active on the partition you are using? IIRC, It is not on by default anymore. To see, go to a cmd line and type "dir /x". If there are any files that exceed the 8.3 format, it will show those files with two names, the 8.3 name and the long name. If it

Git not creating new directory when cloning

2018-06-21 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
Hi, I was trying to clone a repo into a non-existent directory. but it gave me a failure: $ git clone https://github.com/jelera/vim-javascript-syntax.git ~/.vim/bundle/vim-javascript-syntax fatal: destination path '/home/username/.vim/bundle/vim-javascript-syntax' already exists and is not an em

Re: Trying to use xfuncname without success.

2017-02-08 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
> where it has grabbed a line at 126 and is using that for the hunk header. When I say that, I mean that it is using that line for *every* hunk header, for every change, regardless if it has passed a hunk head that it should have matched. On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Jack Adrian Za

Re: Trying to use xfuncname without success.

2017-02-08 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
Tried to copy the .git/config file over to the non-working repository and it didn't seem to do anything. Could the git database be partially corrupted? On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote: > Well, it mostly works, but I'm getting some weirdness where it has >

Re: Trying to use xfuncname without success.

2017-02-08 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
ss. :( On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote: > That was it. I have a .gitattributes file in my home directory. > Ahhh, but it's not in my %userprofile% directory, but in my ~ > directory. > > A bit confusing having 2 home directories. I made a link to my >

Re: Trying to use xfuncname without success.

2017-02-08 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
2017 at 4:05 PM, Samuel Lijin wrote: > Double check .gitattributes? > > On Feb 8, 2017 2:58 PM, "Jack Adrian Zappa" wrote: >> >> Thanks Samuel, >> >> That example showed that there must be something wrong in my .git >> directory, because with it, I&#

Re: Trying to use xfuncname without success.

2017-02-08 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
://github.com/sxlijin/xfuncname-test > > Try cloning and then for any of config1 thru 3, > > $ cp configX .git/config > $ git diff HEAD^ -- test.natvis > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Jack Adrian Zappa > wrote: >> Thanks Samuel, >> >> So, the

Re: Trying to use xfuncname without success.

2017-02-08 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
017 at 12:37 PM, René Scharfe wrote: >> Am 08.02.2017 um 18:11 schrieb Jack Adrian Zappa: >>> Thanks Rene, but you seem to have missed the point. NOTHING is >>> working. No matter what I put there, it doesn't seem to get matched. >> >> I'm not so sure

Re: Trying to use xfuncname without success.

2017-02-08 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
command: git config diff.natvis.xfuncname "^[\t ]* wrote: > Am 08.02.2017 um 18:11 schrieb Jack Adrian Zappa: >> Thanks Rene, but you seem to have missed the point. NOTHING is >> working. No matter what I put there, it doesn't seem to get matched. > > I'm not so su

Re: Trying to use xfuncname without success.

2017-02-08 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
indows, so this might be a platform thing. Can anyone else on Windows please confirm? Thanks, A On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:18 PM, René Scharfe wrote: > Am 07.02.2017 um 20:21 schrieb Jack Adrian Zappa: >> >> I'm trying to setup a hunk header for .natvis files. For some reason, &g

Trying to use xfuncname without success.

2017-02-07 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
I'm trying to specify a hunk header using xfuncname, and it just doesn't want to work. The full question is on SO here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42078376/why-isnt-my-xfuncname-working-in-my-gitconfig-file But the basic gist is that no matter what regex I specify, git will not recognise

Problem staging file

2015-11-09 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
I'm using vss2git [1] which as the name suggests, converts a VSS source control database to git. It has had a couple of hiccups, but for the most part I've not had too much problems that I couldn't manually fix except for this one. I have a file that refuses to be staged. The commands are:

Re: diff not finding difference

2015-09-24 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote: > This is a weird one: > > [file-1 begin] > > abcd efg hijklmnop > > [file-1 end] > > [file-2 begin] > > blah blah blah >

Fwd: diff not finding difference

2015-09-24 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa
This is a weird one: [file-1 begin] abcd efg hijklmnop [file-1 end] [file-2 begin] blah blah blah / abdc boo ya! [file-2 end] Do a diff between these and it won't find any difference. Same with the following two