From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: How to check out the repository at a particular point in time Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:48:13 -0700 Message-ID: <86vctm24le.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <201108221525.32982.trast@student.ethz.ch> <1314026326.37332.YahooMailClassic@web25408.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <4E551BC3.8080701@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Witten , rdiezmail-temp2@yahoo.de, Thomas Rast , in-git-vger@baka.org, Michael J Gruber , Jonathan Nieder , Hilco Wijbenga , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 24 17:48:24 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QwFgl-00053i-1c for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:48:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751750Ab1HXPsS (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:48:18 -0400 Received: from lax-gw09.mailroute.net ([199.89.0.109]:34785 "EHLO mail.mroute.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751172Ab1HXPsQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:48:16 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lax-gw09.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B4E0138517; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:48:14 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by lax-gw09.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81772138491; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:48:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 75B0F3AA1; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:48:13 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.18.11.15; tzolkin = 13 Men; haab = 3 Mol In-Reply-To: <4E551BC3.8080701@op5.se> (Andreas Ericsson's message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:41:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Ericsson 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. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion