Re: Git branches - confusing behavior
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> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Dima Kagan <dima.kagan@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> That's a subjective point of view :) I'm coming from the SVN world and uncommitted changes on one branch don't affect other branches. Is there a way I can achieve this behavior with git?
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> If you *really* want SVN's behaviour of "branches", just copy your
> whole working tree (including the .git directory) and start making
> changes in that. Then they'll be completely separate and you can just
> 'cd' between them.
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> Dave.
What's the point of using git then? :) I like the way branches are created and switched in git, but I would like each branch to preserve it's own history of modifications. Is that too much to ask? :)