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From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: yet another workflow question...
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071011164019.3n4l3rayckck8c4w@intranet.digizenstudio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710111610.55364.andyparkins@gmail.com>


Quoting Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>:

>  - Mobility.  This one is a bit distributed, but I hope you'll let   
> me have it.
>    I often do work on my desktop at home, my desktop at work and my laptop.
>    By setting my remotes up correctly in git it's really easy to walk to
>    another system and pick up exactly where I left off from the other
>    computer.  More importantly though, when you accidentally make changes in
>    two places, there is no danger of data loss.

To extend on this point, after picking up the randomly checked-in save  
point on another computer, the save point itself can be easily  
git-reset'ed.  So there won't be commits like "it's utter broken but i  
got to go home" polluting the history.  I find that extremely handy.

Cheers.
-- 
Jing Xue

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-11 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-11 14:11 yet another workflow question Patrick Doyle
2007-10-11 14:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-11 14:44   ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-11 14:37 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-11 14:39 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-11 15:10 ` Andy Parkins
2007-10-11 17:28   ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-11 20:40   ` Jing Xue [this message]
2007-10-12  7:25     ` Andy Parkins

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