From: Dima Kagan Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 12:11:01 GMT Subject: Re: Git branches - confusing behavior Message-ID: <4826E255.6030005@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: David Symonds wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Dima Kagan wrote: > >> 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? > > 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. > > > 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? :)