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[Bill Baxter]

2009/6/2 "Jérôme M. Berger" <jeberger at free.fr>:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>> 2009/6/2 "Jérôme M. Berger" <jeberger at free.fr>:
>>>
>>> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>>       I've started. I'll give you a full report tomorrow when I have
>>> tested
>>> it more completely, but I have to tell you that it doesn't look good for
>>> Git. Now, I have to ask: have *you* tried Mercurial or Bazaar? And what,
>>> in
>>> your opinion, is the main advantage of Git over the other two?
>>
>> My faves:
>>
>> * Ability to do commits on particular source line diffs so you don't
>> have to do gymnastics to prevent that unrelated one-line fix you made
>> from going into your commit that fixes bug 1234.
>>
> hg record

Great.  Didn't know about that one.  Is there a gui that will make it
so you don't have to say yes or no to each one but browse the changes?
  Git's gui does that.  I don't think I'd use that particular feature
without some kind of gui.   Also I find it nice that the major Git
commands also work in an ncurses kind of mode.  So you can get some of
the ease of the gui without actually having to open up a separate
window.  I think most of curses stuff is working in the msys-git now
too.

>> * Staging area (I think that's what the Git boys call it). Again makes
>> it easier to get just the things you want into a commit, and nothing
>> you don't.
>>
>        I'll have to look at this one, any pointer to specific docs I should
> read?

It's demoed in that video I linked to.
But basically checkin is a two-step process.  Specify what you want to
go into the commit in step 1, then actually do the commit in step 2.
(And of course "what you want to go in" can also be parts of files
instead of whole files.)

>> This is a fantastic Git tutorial:
>> http://excess.org/article/2008/07/ogre-git-tutorial/
>
>        I'll take a look too.

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