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Bazaar on the slow trackBazaar on the slow trackPosted Sep 13, 2012 12:34 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792)In reply to: Bazaar on the slow track by juliank Parent article: Bazaar on the slow track
This has not been my experience with git. As I remember from last time, I have to separately clone the git repo and then create my own branch or checkout an existing one. When I work with multiple branches I need to continuously checkout to jump to the one I want laid out in the filesystem. With bzr, all of this is just one command: branch. (Then you use cd to switch.)
Ok, maybe sometime I have actually used diff and status :-) But if you never make mistakes then you don't need to ;-)
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Bazaar on the slow track Posted Sep 13, 2012 12:43 UTC (Thu) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]
Normally, git automatically checks out whatever HEAD points to. You can also specify another branch to checkout when cloning, using the -b parameter:
git clone -b branch-i-want-to-look-at git://example.com/example.git
Bazaar on the slow track Posted Sep 13, 2012 12:48 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link]
Ok, so you can combine that into a single command, but in terms of cognitive overhead you are still doing 2 things. In bzr the branch is the only thing you need to know, and HEAD/trunk is no different from any other branch.
It's like the difference between Mac and Windows, if you will. One has 1 mouse buttons, the other has 2, and the first one is considered more elegant because of that :-)
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