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Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]

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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date
Dec 31, 2008, 02:56 UTC
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On Tuesday 2008 December 30 20:27:26 Conor Rafferty wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> wtf is wrong with
>
> git checkout <something>
>
> ??
>
> ** It doesn't reliably put the files that were in that revision into the
> working directory - a fairly major flaw, for what I'm using SCM for (and
> 80% of the market IMHO)

And you would be wrong, IMHO. Many people have untracked files or directories in their working directory ('cause they are working there) that they don't want deleted willy-nilly. Build files, modifications that should be on a different branch, etc. There's another thread active on the list complaining that git removes too much from the working tree.

Most users of SCMs do make active modifications to the files in the SCM. It's not a system only for archiving static projects.

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  1. Conor RaffertyDec 31, 2008
  2. Jeff WhitesideDec 31, 2008
  3. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Dec 31, 2008
  4. Daniel BarkalowDec 31, 2008
  5. Daniel BarkalowDec 31, 2008
  6. ZorbaDec 31, 2008
  7. Sitaram ChamartyDec 31, 2008
  8. Daniel BarkalowDec 31, 2008
  9. Sitaram ChamartyDec 31, 2008
  10. ZorbaDec 31, 2008
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