Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:22:30 +0200

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>
>>> Though actually the quickest way to checkout an arbitrary revision is 
>>> with detached heads, and that doesn't require learning git-branch 
>>> right away.
>> But the *easiest* way, where "easiest" means "involves the fewest 
>> commands with smallest risk of fscking up your own repo", is to do
>>
>>
>> git clone <other-devs-repo> other-devs-repo
>> cd other-devs-repo
>> git checkout -b thebug <the-bug-hash>
> 
> I'd just do
> 
> 	git checkout <the-bug>^{commit}
> 
> and be done...
> 

So:

	if (have_bug_in_repo)
		do_the_dscho_way()
	else ...

See what I mean?

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