From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." Subject: Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned] Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:56:17 -0600 Message-ID: <200812302056.21748.bss@iguanasuicide.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1341295.gxpIAS8DQu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jeff Whiteside" , "Daniel Barkalow" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Conor Rafferty" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 31 03:57:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LHrGt-0005b7-LJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:57:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755300AbYLaC4F (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:56:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755301AbYLaC4E (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:56:04 -0500 Received: from rei.iguanasuicide.net ([209.20.91.252]:33787 "EHLO rei.iguanasuicide.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755300AbYLaC4D (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:56:03 -0500 Received: from ip72-204-50-125.fv.ks.cox.net ([72.204.50.125] helo=[10.0.0.124]) by rei.iguanasuicide.net with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_DSS_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LHrFY-0005Wd-8K; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:56:01 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy. X-Virus-Scanned: clamav@iguanasuicide.net Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --nextPart1341295.gxpIAS8DQu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 2008 December 30 20:27:26 Conor Rafferty wrote: > -----Original Message----- > wtf is wrong with > > git checkout > > ?? > > ** It doesn't reliably put the files that were in that revision into the > working directory - a fairly major flaw, for what I'm using SCM for (and > 80% of the market IMHO) And you would be wrong, IMHO. Many people have untracked files or director= ies=20 in their working directory ('cause they are working there) that they don't= =20 want deleted willy-nilly. Build files, modifications that should be on a=20 different branch, etc. There's another thread active on the list complaini= ng=20 that git removes too much from the working tree. Most users of SCMs do make active modifications to the files in the SCM. I= t's=20 not a system only for archiving static projects. =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ =20 --nextPart1341295.gxpIAS8DQu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkla31UACgkQdNbfk+86fC12iQCgiVjarLXsdntf2/qEIbh+dYXE ib4AnA9OP3l3U04QWhUGAeO0VT3TPPpm =H0v3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1341295.gxpIAS8DQu--