Re: VCS comparison table

Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:17:26PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] said that...

But you can also clone _whole_ repository, _all_ published branches with

   $ cg clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

Nope, cg clone will in this case clone the master branch (or whatever
the remote HEAD points at). cg clone -a is planned but not implemented
yet. Very soon now, hopefully. :-)

In GIT to work on some repository you don't (like from what I understand
in Bazaar-NG) "checkout" some branch (which would automatically copy some
data in case of "heavy checkout" or just save some pointer to repository
in "lightweight checkout" case). You clone whole repository; well you can
select which branches to clone. "Checkout" in GIT terminology means to
populate working area with given version (and change in repository which
branch is current, usually).

You don't need to, you can switch your working tree between various
branches.  I think Linus said he does that (or was it Junio?), and I do that
as well, as well as many others.

A good question would be "when to create another branch and when to
clone the repository". And I don't think there's any good answer, except
"when you are comfortable with it". :-) Both approaches have pros/cons.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
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