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Re: Why's Git called Git ?

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 7, 2006, 18:40 UTC
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Aaron Gray wrote:
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>> I really like notion of branching in Git; but be warned about tracking and
>> not recording renames, and the need of explicit packing (the latter very
>> minor). Powerfull, perhaps too powerfull for newbie user: but that is what
>> Cogito is for (although now Git contains fairly large set of high-level
>> commands).
> 
> We like to move forward.

What I like a lot in Git is very easy switching of working area between branches, and to arbitrary commit (point in history).

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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  1. Aaron GrayJul 6, 2006
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