Help promoting Bazaar

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:45:11PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Daniel Carrera, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Also, in Git, I think "checkout" seems to do what "bzr update" does.
> So there is room for confusion for a user coming from those systems.

`git checkout` is more like `bzr switch`.


> Please don't use the word checkout to explain the command checkout.
> The documentation didn't help me a lot because it also used the word
> "checkout". Looking at the documentation, it now seems to me that
> "checkout" does something very similar to "branch". Am I right?

"branch" creates a new branch based on an existing branch.  "checkout"
creates a new working tree tied to an existing branch.


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