AW: Named branches

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Fri Oct 17 14:42:41 UTC 2008


On 17.10.2008 16:12, Kauker, Hubert wrote:
> It is unfortunate that nothing is said what happens when -U is NOT used.
> In fact (tell me if I am wrong):
> 
>  The destination working directory is automatically updated to the 
>  head of the default branch, except when -U is used.

Yep. Something like that would be a good addition indeed.

> That update even happens when the source working directory is null.
> To me that certainly is *not* intuitive.

Only committed info is transferred around. Once you get used to
that notion, it will be intuitive soon.

> Now, I am not advocating to amend the help text.

But I do.



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