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From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: keithp@keithp.com, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>,
	Nicolas Vilz 'niv' <niv@iaglans.de>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: several quick questions
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:39:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139945967.4341.71.camel@evo.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602141101110.3691@g5.osdl.org>

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On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 11:04 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Try doing that on a big project, and it will just kill you. You've also 
> lost the "top-of-branch" info, but if you're just tracking some other 
> tree, that's likely not an issue.

I was validating the cvs import by comparing every tagged version. Trust
me, the git tree-rewriting stage was somewhat faster than the CVS
checkout of the same content. And, as an egg, one often prefers BFI to
finesse. I had trouble figuring out precisely what sequence of commands
were needed to make git-reset --hard happy with existing bits in the
directory.     

-- 
keith.packard@intel.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-14 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-14 16:28 several quick questions Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-14 17:03 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-14 21:30   ` Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-14 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-14 17:47   ` Kenneth Johansson
2006-02-14 18:08     ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-14 18:21       ` Kenneth Johansson
2006-02-14 18:26     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-14 18:10   ` Carl Worth
2006-02-14 18:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-14 20:10       ` Carl Worth
2006-02-14 20:27         ` Petr Baudis
2006-02-14 20:37           ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-14 20:41             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-14 20:54               ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-14 20:55             ` Petr Baudis
2006-02-14 20:40         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-14 21:19           ` Petr Baudis
2006-02-14 21:53           ` Carl Worth
2006-02-14 22:39             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 20:31               ` [PATCH] New git-seek command with documentation and test Carl Worth
2006-02-24  0:18                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-24  1:01                   ` [PATCH] git-seek: Eliminate spurious warning. Fix errant reference to git-bisect in docs Carl Worth
2006-02-24  6:02                     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-24 10:00                 ` [PATCH] New git-seek command with documentation and test Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-24 11:38                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-24 14:23                   ` Carl Worth
2006-02-24 21:48                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-24 21:57                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-14 21:30         ` several quick questions Josef Weidendorfer
2006-02-14 21:40           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-14 22:17             ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-02-14 22:26               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-15 19:22                 ` [PATCH] More useful/hinting error messages in git-checkout Josef Weidendorfer
2006-02-14 23:00             ` several quick questions Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-14 23:23               ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-15  0:08                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-15  0:34                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-15  6:27               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-15  9:06                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-15  9:21                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-14 21:41           ` Petr Baudis
2006-02-14 18:44     ` Carl Worth
2006-02-14 19:00       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-14 19:38         ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-14 20:34           ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-14 20:14         ` Carl Worth
2006-02-14 18:55     ` Keith Packard
2006-02-14 19:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-14 19:39         ` Keith Packard [this message]
     [not found]           ` <20060214220154.GJ31278@pasky.or.cz>
     [not found]             ` <1139960934.4341.93.camel@evo.keithp.com>
     [not found]               ` <20060215000737.GF9573@pasky.or.cz>
     [not found]                 ` <1139963183.4341.117.camel@evo.keithp.com>
2006-02-15  1:12                   ` Cogito turbo-introduction Petr Baudis
2006-02-15  1:32                     ` Petr Baudis
2006-02-15  4:11           ` several quick questions Martin Langhoff
2006-02-15  5:25             ` Keith Packard
2006-02-15  8:21               ` Carl Worth
2006-02-14 19:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-14 19:46 ` Petr Baudis

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