Re: VCS comparison table

Petr Baudis wrote:

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

quoted

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. :-)

That's probably because Cogito still uses obsolete branches/


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

clones _whole_ repository, all the branches and tags, and saves information
about the branches it cloned, and URL to repository in remotes/ file.
 

quoted

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.

I should have said: bring working area to state given by some revision
(instead of "populate working area").

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland