From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com>,
Woody Wu <narkewoody@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/git-checkout.txt: clarify usage
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:59:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vobhsjq6a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH5451nVe1VcD3VzCO7EtKSkzv9CyJs=uqQ9MkMTJEXMTwEvmw@mail.gmail.com> (Andrew Ardill's message of "Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:50:15 +1100")
Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> writes:
> Even if the primary purpose of "git checkout <branch>" is to "check
> out the branch so that further work is done on that branch", I don't
> believe that means it has to be stated first. In fact, I would say
> that there are enough other use cases that the language should be
> slightly more use-case agnostic in the first situation. For example,
> someone might switch to another branch or commit simply to see what
> state the tree was in at that point.
I've been deliberately avoiding the term "switch", actually. I
agree that it may be familiar to people with prior exposure to
subversion, but that is not the primary audience of the manual.
> Some people use checkout to
> deploy a tag of the working tree onto a production server. The first
> example in particular is, I think, a common enough operation that
> restricting the opening lines of documentation to talking about
> building further work is misleading.
I agree with you that sightseeing use case where you do not intend
to make any commit is also important. That is exactly why I said
"further work is done on that branch" not "to that branch" in the
message you are responding to.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-17 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-17 6:45 [PATCH 0/2] Documentation: clarify usage of checkout Chris Rorvick
2012-12-17 6:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/git-checkout.txt: clarify usage Chris Rorvick
2012-12-17 7:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 8:20 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-12-17 8:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 8:59 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-12-17 19:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 8:53 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-12-18 2:55 ` Chris Rorvick
2012-12-17 20:51 ` Philip Oakley
2012-12-17 21:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 21:50 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-12-17 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-12-18 1:29 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-12-18 1:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-18 2:12 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-12-18 3:33 ` Chris Rorvick
2012-12-18 16:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 22:40 ` Philip Oakley
2012-12-17 6:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/git-checkout.txt: document 70c9ac2 behavior Chris Rorvick
2012-12-17 7:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 7:23 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-12-17 7:26 ` Junio C Hamano
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