From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>,
rdiezmail-temp2@yahoo.de, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
in-git-vger@baka.org, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to check out the repository at a particular point in time
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:48:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86vctm24le.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E551BC3.8080701@op5.se> (Andreas Ericsson's message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:41:55 +0200")
>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
Andreas> Whatever, really. The fact that pretty much everyone seems to know
Andreas> what a branch is and how it works in git after a (very) brief intro
Andreas> to it means it's either right on target or that people are so used to
Andreas> the fact that branch means something different in every scm that they
Andreas> don't even bother loading the word with some preconceived notion that
Andreas> used to be right in cvs.
It does lead to confusion though, and once you *really* understand that
a branch is a point, not a line, you can do a lot more cool things with
git, and rebase and stash make a lot more sense.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-24 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-22 12:25 How to check out the repository at a particular point in time R. Diez
2011-08-22 13:25 ` Thomas Rast
2011-08-22 15:18 ` R. Diez
2011-08-22 16:56 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-08-23 15:54 ` Michael Witten
2011-08-23 16:05 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-08-23 16:09 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-08-23 16:23 ` Michael Witten
2011-08-23 16:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-08-24 15:41 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-08-24 15:48 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2011-08-24 16:18 ` Michael Witten
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-23 7:41 R. Diez
2011-08-23 9:17 ` Thomas Rast
2011-08-23 10:04 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-08-23 20:30 ` Jens Lehmann
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