Richard Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alex Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Re >> >>>>>>> "RR" == Richard Riley writes: >> SR> Hi Richard! >> > I am trying to write a short beginners tutorial to using DVC with GIT in >> > emacs. >> > >> > I can not see how to do the most important development step - create a >> > branch. Can someone advise? Or must this be done from the command line >> > for the time being? If so, is there something on the way? >> >> >> SR> I am no git user and git branch --help gives a long page of >> SR> information. >> >> >> SR> What command(s) do you use from the shell to create a new branch? >> >> >> >> branch could be created with 'git branch branch_name' command, or with >> >> explicit checkout like, 'git checkout -b branch_name' >> >> RR> You are referring to command line stuff here I think? You mean this as >> RR> an extension or "joining the dots" in the current GIT layer for DVC? >> >> I refer to git's command line interface. I'll look to xgit interface to >> see, can we expand it with branch commands. > > Not having the branch commands in DVC for git would immediately > invalidate its usage for a lot of people I think. branching and staging > are two of the most used features of git in my (limited) experience. if > people have to go to command line for branching they are more likely to > use magit for example which does have branching support. Git is here to > stay and more and more projects are adopting it I think.
I have implemented xgit-branch and xgit-checkout to create branches and to switch between git branches. Stefan. _______________________________________________ Dvc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/dvc-dev
