Re: Bootstrapping into git, commit gripes at me

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Marc Singer wrote:

From my POV, what I want is a branch with the tag v2.6.12 as the basis
of the branch.  I'm guessing that -b means "make me a branch and call
it this".

Yup. That would be the interface.

 # git checkout -b BRANCH_NAME [TAG]

If the TAG is omitted, the branch is made from the current HEAD or
some other reasonable point defined by the current working directory.

That would be the most natural thing that would fall out of this kind of 
interface.

Are uncommitted changes present in the working directory maintained?
Discarded?  I wont't care since I'll never be doing that.  At least,
not on purpose.

They'd be maintained. If they clash with the target being checked out (ie
the checked-out tag would have changes to those files) it would error out
with a "I can't do that, Dave".

Unless you give the "-f" flag, in which case they're all thrown out, and
"git checkout" will force the new state and throw away any old state
entirely.

			Linus