From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: mtimes of working files Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:23:32 +0200 Message-ID: <200707141523.32929.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <20070714004433.GB10131@fieldses.org> <1184374174.2785.104.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Andy Parkins , git@vger.kernel.org, Jan Hudec , Johannes Schindelin To: David Woodhouse X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 14 15:22:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I9haJ-0003to-2Y for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:22:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755188AbXGNNWv convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:22:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755364AbXGNNWl (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:22:41 -0400 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:10181 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755181AbXGNNWj (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:22:39 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E719A80265B; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:15:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31283-08; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:15:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.9.0.2] (unknown [10.9.0.2]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DD7802663; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:15:31 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <1184374174.2785.104.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: l=C3=B6rdag 14 juli 2007 skrev David Woodhouse: > On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 20:44 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 01:36:33AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > Yeah, much of it. Although I've also seen other people trying to = get > > > to grips with git and tripping up over branches recently. > >=20 > > Could you give any details? What specifically was it they were hav= ing > > trouble with?=20 >=20 > Just conversations on IRC where stuff had to be explained. People not > understanding that they'd actually cloned _multiple_ branches and the= y > needed to select the one they wanted, making the same kind of stupid > mistakes I did with committing to the wrong place, etc. Nothing speci= fic > stands out as being fixable, certainly. That's why there are scripts that modify the bash prompt to show the cu= rrent branch. I made one for stacked git (it works with plain git too). The git compl= etion scripts have=20 something also I think It helps a lot for those of us with bad memory implants. > Branches have their place, and some people seem very happy with them = as > part of their local workflow. I just wonder if we have to have them o= n > the servers too; that's all. Branches are bad if you don't need them as is any feature you don't nee= d is bad, it is just that many people need branches. Branches are a pain to manage with= many SCM tools, except git, which solves most of the problems with branches. -- robin