From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:36:30 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <20061020133630.GH20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200610201517.26702.jnareb@gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:17:26PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...
> But you can also clone _whole_ repository, _all_ published branches with
> 
>    $ cg clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

Nope, cg clone will in this case clone the master branch (or whatever
the remote HEAD points at). cg clone -a is planned but not implemented
yet. Very soon now, hopefully. :-)

> In GIT to work on some repository you don't (like from what I understand
> in Bazaar-NG) "checkout" some branch (which would automatically copy some
> data in case of "heavy checkout" or just save some pointer to repository
> in "lightweight checkout" case). You clone whole repository; well you can
> select which branches to clone. "Checkout" in GIT terminology means to
> populate working area with given version (and change in repository which
> branch is current, usually).

You don't need to, you can switch your working tree between various
branches.  I think Linus said he does that (or was it Junio?), and I do that
as well, as well as many others.

A good question would be "when to create another branch and when to
clone the repository". And I don't think there's any good answer, except
"when you are comfortable with it". :-) Both approaches have pros/cons.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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