{"thread":{"id":"16946","subject":"RE: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]","startedAt":"2008-12-31T10:56:09Z","lastAt":"2008-12-31T10:56:09Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Conor Rafferty"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"99053","messageId":"BB5F02FD3789B54E8964D38D6775E718242D37@ALTMORE-SVR.altmore.local","threadId":"16946","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"RE: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]","fromName":"Conor Rafferty","fromEmail":"conor.rafferty@altmore.co.uk","sentAt":null,"receivedAt":"2008-12-31T10:56:09Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"conor.rafferty@altmore.co.uk","avatar":null},"body":"Haha, no probs\n\nNeither does the job\n\nI either need to figure out how the indexes get involved in the dot\nversion,\nOr give in and create a branch - that's how you guys work mainly, so\nthat use case will no doubt work \nOr find something else to do the job - mercurial looks promising\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Jeff Whiteside [mailto:jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com] \nSent: 31 December 2008 02:36\nTo: Conor Rafferty\nCc: Daniel Barkalow; Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.; git@vger.kernel.org\nSubject: Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows\nand other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]\n\nsir, i believe you're not reading what is typed.\n\n> wtf is wrong with\n>\n> git checkout <something>\n>\n> ??\n>\n> ** It doesn't reliably put the files that were in that revision into \n> the working directory - a fairly major flaw, for what I'm using SCM \n> for (and 80% of the market IMHO)\n\nyes it does.  your example uses \"git checkout versionB .\", which is NOT\n\"git checkout <something>\"\nwe are suggesting you do \"git checkout versionB\" which is different\n(HINT: there is NO dot), and which i'm 99% positive will work.\n\nif you still disagree, then i'm sure mercurial will be sufficient for\nyour needs, and all your dcvs book-lernin' over christmas will be\ntransferrable.\n\ngood luck with whatever option you choose.\n"}]}