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Bazaar on the slow track

Bazaar on the slow track

Posted Sep 13, 2012 12:43 UTC (Thu) by juliank (subscriber, #45896)
In reply to: Bazaar on the slow track by hingo
Parent article: Bazaar on the slow track

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


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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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