David Cournapeau wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > >> Important note: if there are any uncommitted changes when you run git >> checkout, Git will behave very strangely. The strangeness is predictable >> and sometimes useful, but it is best to avoid it. All you need to do, of >> course, is commit all the new changes before checking out the new head. > > If by strange and confused, the OP means refuse to change branch, then > yes. Otherwise, I have no idea what he is talking about. Maybe an old > git version - he does not say which one he is using.
Could be. All of these tools are moving targets. The tutorial was last modified in June, 2008. > > Also, it is said in the introduction that the OP was using git but did > not understand what was happening under the hood. So his conclusion is > you have to understand git internals to understand git internals ? > Sounds tautological to me. No, I think the point of Duan's introduction was that *initially* he had trouble *using* git because he did not understand its internals; therefore he was writing a tutorial that would explain the usage in terms of what the commands do internally, instead of simply providing lists of commands to accomplish a given set of tasks. The description of internals that he provides is pretty minimal, though. > > I am all for hearing git bashing by people - but I would prefer if it > was coming after actual use of the tool. Please understand, I am not trying to bash git--it is clearly an enormously powerful and well-made tool--and I apologize if my posts have appeared to tend in that direction. I guess I am trying to keep hg from being dismissed too quickly, and I am trying to understand what the similarities and differences are, and what consequences the choice of one or the other would be likely to have. The quotes were from a tutorial http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/git/ referenced by Matthew. The author of the tutorial appears to have been writing after actual use of git. I certainly am not, and will say no more about it. > >> The state you are in while your HEAD is detached is not recorded by any >> branch... > I included the above quote because it made me laugh, and I hoped it would do the same for others. That's all. Eric > The only occasion it happened to me was with git-svn - which I would > no advocate using as a transition path, indeed. It is great for > individual people (I use it all the time for numpy) but it is > definitely strange UI-wise sometimes. > > David > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
