From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: git question: how do I get a specific git version into my working directory?
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:09:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvegnhtlg8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pp717b0r.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:43:00 +0300")
> Yes, I know all that. But I'd still do all that on a separate branch,
> since 'master' is not supposed to be used for such stuff, it's
> supposed to track upstream as close as possible.
I think Harald's point is that after "git checkout e56ab7" you're simply
not in "master" any more. At least, not more than you're in any
other branch. Instead, you're in a kind of transient nameless branch.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-18 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-18 10:33 git question: how do I get a specific git version into my working directory? Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-18 10:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-04-18 12:18 ` Steinar Bang
2015-04-18 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 13:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-18 13:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-18 13:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 14:07 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-18 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-04-18 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 17:44 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-18 12:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-18 13:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-18 13:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-18 13:57 ` Steinar Bang
2015-04-18 14:03 ` Andreas Schwab
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