From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout without arguments does not make sense
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:57:54 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807220256270.3407@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080721214459.GJ32057@genesis.frugalware.org>
Hi,
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 05:36:59PM -0400, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think "git status" reports this information in recent versions,
> > doesn't it?
>
> Right. But that shows other infos as well, for example the untracked
> files, etc. So there are cases when git checkout is just better.
>
> However, you are right about it may not be the best habit from my side
> to use git checkout to get that info. ;-)
I usually call "git status" for that information. But Junio suggested
checkout recently on #git, for exactly that information, so you are not
alone at all.
Ciao,
Dscho
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-22 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-21 20:06 [PATCH] checkout without arguments does not make sense Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 20:49 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-21 21:11 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 21:36 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-21 21:44 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-22 0:57 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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