Subject: Re: VCS comparison table

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:39:05 +0100

Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:01:07PM +0100 I heard the voice of
> Jakub Narebski, and lo! it spake thus:
>>
>> Do you really often compile and run other branch while developing on
>> other?
> 
> Yes.  And I do the same with older revisions along a given branch too,
> where is where [lightweight] checkouts come in handy.

Well, if you don't _work_ on other branch, you can alwaych checkout
the other branch or any given revision from a separate directory
using
  git --git-dir=<path to repo> tar-tree <revision> | tar xf -
for example.
-- 
Jakub Narebski