From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Why's Git called Git ? Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:40:07 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <01f201c6a0a2$6faa0f80$0200a8c0@AMD2500> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 07 20:40:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyvFT-0000tg-5Q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:40:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751224AbWGGSkP (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:40:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751230AbWGGSkP (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:40:15 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59561 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751224AbWGGSkO (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:40:14 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FyvFC-0000qH-A7 for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:40:02 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-22-25.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.22.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:40:02 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-22-25.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:40:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-22-25.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Aaron Gray wrote: >> I really like notion of branching in Git; but be warned about tracking and >> not recording renames, and the need of explicit packing (the latter very >> minor). Powerfull, perhaps too powerfull for newbie user: but that is what >> Cogito is for (although now Git contains fairly large set of high-level >> commands). > > We like to move forward. What I like a lot in Git is very easy switching of working area between branches, and to arbitrary commit (point in history). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git