Re: [PATCH] Clarification for the command "git checkout <branch>"

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 1, 2010, 13:09 UTC
Message-ID: <x2zf3271551004010609l9edc6bf3jc9e8b70daca63f37@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3yjsriz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

> I think you are thinking backwards.  If the user always does a perfect job
> before making each and every commit, she doesn't ever need to learn
> "amend".  Otherwise, she will learn "amend" way before learning to switch
> between branches to work on different things at the same time.

Right. Got it. It's pretty difficult to think from a new user's perspective actually :)

-- Ram

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