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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: mtimes of working files
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:27:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184261246.31598.139.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707120857.53090.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 08:57 +0100, Andy Parkins wrote:
> The only time you get an unnecessary rebuild is if you do
> 
>  git checkout branch1
>  git checkout branch2
>  git checkout branch1
> 
> But we can hardly expect git to be responsible for that. 

Indeed. That's a user error. Git makes it cheap and easy to have
separate _trees_. Just use them -- branches are just another mental
hangover from CVS which we should try to cure ourselves of :)

-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-12 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-11 15:08 mtimes of working files Yakov Lerner
2007-07-11 18:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-11 18:36   ` Yakov Lerner
2007-07-11 18:42     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-11 20:26       ` Jan Hudec
2007-07-12  7:57         ` Andy Parkins
2007-07-12 17:27           ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-07-13  0:37             ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-13 23:00               ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-13 23:18                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-13 23:46                   ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-14  0:10                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-14  0:36                       ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-14  0:44                         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-14  0:49                           ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-14  1:29                             ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-14 13:23                             ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-07-14 13:09                     ` Julian Phillips
2007-07-14 22:22                     ` Jan Hudec
2007-07-14 22:36                       ` Julian Phillips
2007-07-15  1:46                         ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-07-12  6:26       ` Eric Wong
2007-07-12 13:05         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-07-12 18:25           ` Eric Wong

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