From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@talktalk.net>
To: Christian Halstrick <christian.halstrick@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>, rene.scheibe@gmail.com
Subject: Re: What exactly is a "initial checkout"
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 23:33:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f81eb37d-e432-7451-6472-7ddc0874d0c7@talktalk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAENte7hN6=ChSWHKo=cawvwV_2xVDW0uCRY+yAjAgCz8_TtpmA@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/11/2018 08:50, Christian Halstrick wrote:
> Ok, I know understand the problems which are solved by this
> special behaviour of a "initial checkout". And also important I understand
> when exactly I should do a "initial checkout" - when the index file does
> not exist. I'll share my new knowledge with JGit :-)
>
Given that the initial query was about the lack of documentation for the
term "initial checkout", do you have any suggestion of how it might best
be incorporated into the documentation to assist future reader?
--
Philip
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-07 23:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-06 12:38 What exactly is a "initial checkout" Christian Halstrick
2018-11-06 21:18 ` Jeff King
2018-11-07 0:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-07 8:50 ` Christian Halstrick
2018-11-07 23:33 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
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