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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:24:27 +0200
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On 04/17/2007 05:41 PM, Rene Herman wrote:

> You'd be quite right in saying that there isn't much point; if I want to 
> now start populating branch a, I have to "git checkout a" anyway, and 
> that action _will_ now be instantaneous.

Actually, I take that back, it's not instantaneous at all. 1995 systems are 
much better at showing long delays than those fancy modern computers are!

Rene.