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Re: git-describe

From	Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: git-describe
Followup-To	comp.lang.java.programmer
Date	2011-05-28 16:29 +1200
Organization	Geek Central
Message-ID	<irptnt$rs$1@lust.ihug.co.nz> (permalink)
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In message <irppn6$js9$1@dont-email.me>, Joshua Cranmer wrote:

> On 05/27/2011 10:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> In message<alpine.DEB.2.00.1105272251580.1610@urchin.earth.li>, Tom
>> Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>> $ hg update 0
>>
>> So this command has started a new branch?
> 
> No, hg update goes to that revision.

Yes, but the next commit seemed to spawn off a new branch from there, and I 
didn’t see any name attached to it.

> I think the git equivalent is git checkout (bizarrely named, if you ask
> me).

Why? It gets a snapshot out of the tree. What else would a “checkout” do?

>> In Git, every branch has a name.
> 
> hg branches have names ...

I didn’t see any in the commit example posted earlier.

> ... although branch names are a property of the changeset and not the
> repository (which makes git hard for me to use, having used hg for 6-odd
> years).

I’m not sure how that’s different from Git. In Git, a branch head points to 
a commit/changeset, and that’s all there is to it.

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git-describe Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-25 22:14 +1200
  Re: git-describe Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-05-26 17:59 +0100
    Re: git-describe Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-27 11:00 +1200
      Re: git-describe Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-05-27 23:51 +0100
        Re: git-describe Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-28 14:34 +1200
          Re: git-describe Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-05-27 23:21 -0400
            Re: git-describe Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-28 16:29 +1200
              Re: git-describe Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-05-29 00:33 +0100
          Re: git-describe Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-05-29 00:25 +0100

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