{"thread":{"id":"16947","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":"2008-12-31T16:00:28Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Conor Rafferty","Daniel Barkalow"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"99054","messageId":"BB5F02FD3789B54E8964D38D6775E718242D38@ALTMORE-SVR.altmore.local","threadId":"16947","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":"\nAnd you would be wrong, IMHO.  Many people have untracked files or\ndirectories in their working directory ('cause they are working there)\nthat they don't want deleted willy-nilly.  Build files, modifications\nthat should be on a different branch, etc.  There's another thread\nactive on the list complaining that git removes too much from the\nworking tree.\n\n** An SCM should be able to cope with both use cases. In fact I make it\neasy for the SCM by deleting EVERYTHING from the working directory,\nbefore calling git-checkout.\n\nMost users of SCMs do make active modifications to the files in the SCM.\nIt's not a system only for archiving static projects.\n\n** Archiving static projects is not the ONLY thing I want to do with my\nSCM, it just happens to be the FIRST thing.\n"},{"id":"99065","messageId":"alpine.LNX.1.00.0812311039370.19665@iabervon.org","threadId":"16947","inReplyTo":"BB5F02FD3789B54E8964D38D6775E718242D38@ALTMORE-SVR.altmore.local","subject":"RE: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]","fromName":"Daniel Barkalow","fromEmail":"barkalow@iabervon.org","sentAt":"2008-12-31T16:00:28Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-31T16:00:28Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"barkalow@iabervon.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/55364219?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Conor Rafferty wrote:\n\n> And you would be wrong, IMHO.  Many people have untracked files or\n> directories in their working directory ('cause they are working there)\n> that they don't want deleted willy-nilly.  Build files, modifications\n> that should be on a different branch, etc.  There's another thread\n> active on the list complaining that git removes too much from the\n> working tree.\n> \n> ** An SCM should be able to cope with both use cases. In fact I make it\n> easy for the SCM by deleting EVERYTHING from the working directory,\n> before calling git-checkout.\n\nIn this case, git thinks you actually meant to delete those tracked files, \nand does its best to not undelete them unless you ask it to get them back. \nGit is very careful not to lose your changes, which is very nice most of \nthe time, but means that you can't make changes and expect git to lose \nthem.\n\n\t-Daniel\n*This .sig left intentionally blank*\n"}]}