Hi, On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 05:36:59PM -0400, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I think "git status" reports this information in recent versions, > > doesn't it? > > Right. But that shows other infos as well, for example the untracked > files, etc. So there are cases when git checkout is just better. > > However, you are right about it may not be the best habit from my side > to use git checkout to get that info. ;-) I usually call "git status" for that information. But Junio suggested checkout recently on #git, for exactly that information, so you are not alone at all. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html