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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: acm@muc.de, 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 20:37:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838udp72yq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvegnhtlg8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:09:01 -0400
> Cc: acm@muc.de, Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > 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.

And my point is: why have a nameless branch, if you can have a named
one?



  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-18 17:37 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
2015-04-18 17:37               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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