Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Oct 14, 2007, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID: <47127A86.2040607@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710142117220.25221@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>
>>> Though actually the quickest way to checkout an arbitrary revision is 
>>> with detached heads, and that doesn't require learning git-branch 
>>> right away.
>> But the *easiest* way, where "easiest" means "involves the fewest 
>> commands with smallest risk of fscking up your own repo", is to do
>>
>>
>> git clone <other-devs-repo> other-devs-repo
>> cd other-devs-repo
>> git checkout -b thebug <the-bug-hash>
> 
> I'd just do
> 
> 	git checkout <the-bug>^{commit}
> 
> and be done...
>

So:

	if (have_bug_in_repo)
		do_the_dscho_way()
	else ...

See what I mean?

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