Re: EasyGit Integration

On Thu, 11 June 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Jakub Narebski[off-list ref] wrote:

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Scott Chacon [off-list ref] writes:

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Linus
Torvalds[off-list ref] wrote:

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IOW, both would be "if you give it a commit, it acts at a commit level",
and "if you give it pathnames, it acts on a pathname level".

That is totally obvious, and not in the least confusing. They are two
different things, but at the same time, there is no question about which
is which.

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In my mind these are 2 completely different commands.

They are two different things, but they both make sense within the
_context_.

Only earthworms and FOX news have no concept of "in context". So it does
make sense to say "git checkout filename" (and expect it to check out that
_filename_ - surprise surprise), and also say "git checkout branch" (and
expect it to check out that branch - again, big surprise).

The problem here is that you're using 'check out' in your descriptions
of the expectations to mean two different things.  One means 'switch
branches' and the other means 'extract content'.

In both cases it means getting something out of repository (checking
out) and into working area.

'git reset' also gets something out of the repository and into the
working area, that's not reason enough to put them under the same
'checkout' command, is it?

Nope. 'git reset' resets something to the state in repository (to given
commit).  The fact that some combination of options for 'git reset' gives
the same result as some specific combination of options of 'git checkout'
means only that one can arrive at some destination in two different ways.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland