From: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping into git, commit gripes at me
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:12:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050712051235.GA10930@buici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507112149290.17536@g5.osdl.org>
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:59:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Marc Singer wrote:
> >
> > Does it make sense to think about this branch as an flow of commits?
> > Or is it just a starting point for a line of development?
>
> It's really a flow of commits. Nothing will ever really remember what the
> starting point was at some later date if you have done commits, and the
> branch will always follow the _head_ of development on that branch.
That's the important detail.
As an aside, we (a vary large set of developers) have been using SCM
tools for how-many-freakin-years and only now am I seeing something
sane. Cheers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-12 5:13 UTC|newest]
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2005-07-08 23:07 Bootstrapping into git, commit gripes at me Marc Singer
[not found] ` <7v4qb46dff.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-07-09 1:11 ` Marc Singer
2005-07-09 21:04 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-10 15:06 ` Petr Baudis
[not found] ` <20050709003636.GA26526@buici.com>
[not found] ` <7v1x684wgr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-07-09 1:16 ` Marc Singer
2005-07-09 1:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-07-09 1:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-11 22:20 ` Marc Singer
2005-07-11 23:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-07-11 23:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-07-12 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-12 1:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-12 2:10 ` Marc Singer
2005-07-12 3:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-12 3:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-12 4:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-12 4:43 ` Marc Singer
2005-07-12 4:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-12 5:12 ` Marc Singer [this message]
2005-07-12 7:48 ` Petr Baudis
2005-07-12 9:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-07-12 16:29 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-24 8:57 ` Petr Baudis
2005-07-24 16:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-07-12 16:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-12 1:26 ` Petr Baudis
2005-07-12 2:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-07-12 3:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-12 3:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-07-12 3:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-12 3:53 ` Marc Singer
2005-07-12 17:04 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-07-11 23:45 ` Linus Torvalds
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2005-07-09 0:40 Marc Singer
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