server-1.2-branch accidentally merged with master

[Ray Lehtiniemi]

On Monday 09 October 2006 22:53, Carl Worth wrote:

> How 'bout that. The update-ref command is one I've never used
> manually. I likely would have done the above as follows, which might
> be a touch simpler:

> [snip: checkout/reset example]

yep, that should achieve the same effect.  AFAIK, the only real difference is 
that checkout/reset will do the extra work of actually creating a copy of the 
working tree, whereas update-ref just changes the branch pointer directly 
with no extra file system operations.

ray