From: Dima Kagan <dima.kagan@gmail.com>
To: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git branches - confusing behavior
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 15:11:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4826E255.6030005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20805110506i58dc735fqb6f4258dbb67bf27@mail.gmail.com>
David Symonds wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Dima Kagan <dima.kagan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's a subjective point of view :) I'm coming from the SVN world and uncommitted changes on one branch don't affect other branches. Is there a way I can achieve this behavior with git?
>
> If you *really* want SVN's behaviour of "branches", just copy your
> whole working tree (including the .git directory) and start making
> changes in that. Then they'll be completely separate and you can just
> 'cd' between them.
>
>
> Dave.
What's the point of using git then? :) I like the way branches are created and switched in git, but I would like each branch to preserve it's own history of modifications. Is that too much to ask? :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-11 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-11 11:31 Git branches - confusing behavior Dima Kagan
2008-05-11 11:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-11 11:58 ` Dima Kagan
2008-05-11 12:06 ` David Symonds
2008-05-11 12:11 ` Dima Kagan [this message]
2008-05-11 12:13 ` David Symonds
2008-05-11 12:17 ` Dima Kagan
2008-05-11 12:20 ` Steve Frécinaux
[not found] ` <f35478f50805110513h15aa462bs9ee35ed4738d3009@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-11 12:21 ` Dima Kagan
2008-05-11 13:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-11 12:33 ` Dima Kagan
2008-05-11 12:57 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-05-11 13:04 ` Dima Kagan
2008-05-11 13:27 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-05-11 13:39 ` Dima Kagan
[not found] ` <4826F72D.2070205-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-11 15:25 ` Patrick Aljord
2008-05-11 15:39 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 7:49 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-11 14:03 ` Theodore Tso
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2008-06-30 7:23 Matt Seitz (matseitz)
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