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From: merlyn@stonehenge•com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5•se>
Cc: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail•com>,
	rdiezmail-temp2@yahoo•de, Thomas Rast <trast@student•ethz.ch>,
	in-git-vger@baka•org, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>,
	Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to check out the repository at a particular point in time
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:48:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86vctm24le.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E551BC3.8080701@op5.se> (Andreas Ericsson's message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:41:55 +0200")

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5•se> writes:

Andreas> Whatever, really. The fact that pretty much everyone seems to know
Andreas> what a branch is and how it works in git after a (very) brief intro
Andreas> to it means it's either right on target or that people are so used to
Andreas> the fact that branch means something different in every scm that they
Andreas> don't even bother loading the word with some preconceived notion that
Andreas> used to be right in cvs.

It does lead to confusion though, and once you *really* understand that
a branch is a point, not a line, you can do a lot more cool things with
git, and rebase and stash make a lot more sense.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-24 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-22 12:25 How to check out the repository at a particular point in time R. Diez
2011-08-22 13:25 ` Thomas Rast
2011-08-22 15:18   ` R. Diez
2011-08-22 16:56     ` Jens Lehmann
2011-08-23 15:54     ` Michael Witten
2011-08-23 16:05       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-08-23 16:09         ` Matthieu Moy
2011-08-23 16:23           ` Michael Witten
2011-08-23 16:53             ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-08-24 15:41       ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-08-24 15:48         ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2011-08-24 16:18           ` Michael Witten
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-23  7:41 R. Diez
2011-08-23  9:17 ` Thomas Rast
2011-08-23 10:04   ` PJ Weisberg
2011-08-23 20:30     ` Jens Lehmann

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