Re: Workflow question

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Russ Brown <pickscrape@gmail.com> writes:

> I keep reading things similar to this and bit by bit I'm starting to get
> it. :) I suppose this is one case in which it's definitely a
> disadvantage to have a good understanding of svn before coming to git...
>
> <yoda>You must unlearn what you have learned</yoda>

You do not have to unlearn; if Jeff truly unlearned he wouldn't
have spotted you were trapped in SVN mentality.  You just need
to learn there could be other ways ;-).

> If you delete a branch that has commits on it that aren't referenced by
> any other branches, will those commits be removed by something like git
> pack or git gc?

Yes, eventually.

> I suppose what has me the most confused is how a developer works with a
> remote branch: I've come to understand that a developer should never
> check out and work on a remote branch, and always create a local one and
> work on that. If he does that using the above hierarchy, there then
> becomes main->projectX->featureY->jeff_local_branch_of_featureY. Or is
> is possible for a developer to work directory on a remote branch?

The statement in the last sentence does not make any sense.
Remote is called remote because it is remote and supposed to be
out of reach ;-)

More seriously, remotes are used as reference points so if you
"work directly on them", you cannot use them as reference points
any more; you defeat the sole purpose of existence of remotes.

You can work _without_ using remote tracking branches, but that
is mostly for merge based workflow.  It appears that you are
leaning towards rebase-heavy workflow, so I do not think it is
applicable to your project.