10 Jul
2012
10 Jul
'12
4 p.m.
GIT for dummies Q:
Do you use some web based tool to query the tree on
the remote server, or do you just do a good 'ole grep of your local copy? (I presume
grep of the local, but I didn't know if there was some tool that provided
results with links to the past commits for the found sections of code, etc...)
I use grep locally. Nothing fancy. Takes probably a 10 minutes or so to perform a
first-time grep on the entire tree. Subsequent searches are a bit faster as long as I
don't do anything to disrupt caching.
I keep my local repository reasonably current. Usually no less than weekly I pull
everything and rebuild everything, although I pull local modules more often as they affect
my builds. When there is a flurry of patching I'll pull everything daily, even more
often if necessary.
Darrell