From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarification for the command "git checkout " Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:39:24 +0530 Message-ID: References: <4B67227A.7030908@web.de> <7vaau6q18q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4BA1FC39.10300@web.de> <32541b131003180936x746dad06k386788d3cb6fcdeb@mail.gmail.com> <4BA3329E.6050304@web.de> <4BB21F6D.7070804@web.de> <7vd3ylv4oq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vd3yjsriz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Markus Elfring , Michael Witten , Avery Pennarun , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 01 15:10:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxK9u-0002jO-2x for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:10:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756303Ab0DANJt convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:09:49 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f209.google.com ([209.85.217.209]:37590 "EHLO mail-gx0-f209.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755815Ab0DANJp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:09:45 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 88252 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:09:45 EDT Received: by gxk1 with SMTP id 1so1003934gxk.16 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:09:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:received:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/f/qsvJgCwi1uAipoQs/oTUS9MOXU/I6hXISIwhK7v8=; b=R6HFlf+4Yc2we5fp+VKP5NaCXuzyXa4+L7wH25brWJDuOlgIwRLD9GcxmtjHoPmzkL R7E5U85mw7tCiEc6vPQXmvoOSCCCtiUN2vmyL4QG7JTX3KIyXIs5cOP+sSbkjb3AGVuo dIr50fRpSUiw3mSbt76G9e6AcVd1tj2aYTMv8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kBzt3eYFlusRFKlXvuc0aGucbnNL/DjkM1fpuWO/Xh3W+4BbgyxheXfEUvbxWWGSFb TEzOSZGJM/aegHqS6RrfpNzVqvtlaqKcFXl7BvNxv3qOAu5b/eBxr2+oaXm+4nayVDZX xi5gLFjInbmm2OZ8TH1kZoYXKkAzfJytcIma4= Received: by 10.90.69.14 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 06:09:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vd3yjsriz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Received: by 10.91.136.20 with SMTP id o20mr1411612agn.12.1270127384336; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > I think you are thinking backwards. =A0If the user always does a perf= ect job > before making each and every commit, she doesn't ever need to learn > "amend". =A0Otherwise, she will learn "amend" way before learning to = switch > between branches to work on different things at the same time. Right. Got it. It's pretty difficult to think from a new user's perspective actually :) -- Ram