It might help to think of your SVN experience. In SVN when you checkout a branch, you download a *copy* of the files in that branch in the repo. When you commit, you upload your modified files to the branch in the repository.
In Git, although you have your version of repository in a database on your computer, the situation is similar. In Git, when you checkout a branch Git loads the files in that branch from the repo to the working directory, where they show in your file system and you can open them and modify them. When you git commit them, the changes are written to the repo. In both Git & SVN, you generally make changes to your repository using your vcs commands, and you make changes to the checked-out copy using your editor. In both cases, branches exist *in* the repository, and the files that you are working on have come *from* the repository. The difference is that in Git the repo you are working from is your personal version which is stored on your computer. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
