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: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:14:25 -0600 Message-ID: <200812310914.25779.bss@iguanasuicide.net> References: <200812302141.02248.bss@iguanasuicide.net> <7v7i5hymp7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2783858.9JSClHkYoQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Conor Rafferty" , "Jeff Whiteside" , "Daniel Barkalow" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 31 16:16:57 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 1LI2oa-0008Su-29 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:16:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753958AbYLaPO2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:14:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753863AbYLaPO2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:14:28 -0500 Received: from eastrmmtao103.cox.net ([68.230.240.9]:46749 "EHLO eastrmmtao103.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752265AbYLaPO1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:14:27 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 133244 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:14:27 EST Received: from eastrmimpo03.cox.net ([68.1.16.126]) by eastrmmtao103.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20081231151428.LAXD18445.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net>; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:14:28 -0500 Received: from localhost ([72.204.50.125]) by eastrmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id xrES1a0032i4SyG02rESbb; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:14:26 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=9f81XiW3As4A:10 a=jo3Ua4_GZn8A:10 a=Fq1VQ0LPAAAA:8 a=gDasAThQWZADh8aGZIMA:9 a=LpdXce83YFb0sHCgnUVFuSug_Y8A:4 a=qIVjreYYsbEA:10 a=T3brmoaXcPoA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 a=FvJnvPXeic7SlDz_5HMA:9 a=bHWxRHOReWlq3YAPrp4hDHr9m2oA:4 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Received: from bss by localhost with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LI2m9-0005jf-Qy; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:14:25 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <7v7i5hymp7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --nextPart2783858.9JSClHkYoQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote=20 about 'Re: for newbs =3D little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows an= d=20 other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]': >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: >> "git checkout " is similar to "hg revert -r >> ", > >No it is not. > >The form of the command is makes this request: > > Please look into that named , and check out the named > out of it to my work tree. That seems similar to "hg revert": Using the -r option, revert the given files or directories to their contents as of a specific revision. > Because the reason I want them in=20 > my work tree is so that I can include them as part of the next commit > I am preparing to create in the index, please update these paths in > my index while at it. This part is odd to me, but does make some sense. I can only think of a=20 few reasons to retrieve a file from a different tree-ish without=20 immediately turning around and doing "git add ". =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ =20 --nextPart2783858.9JSClHkYoQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAklbjFEACgkQ55pqL7G1QFkiHgCfQq50IyWvsURDGKF2UzCTIU1A ggYAn3vSsoVlEWCUQWd5snmw42HELOw1 =bKpm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2783858.9JSClHkYoQ--