From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:09:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarification for the command "git checkout " Message-ID: 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