From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jing Xue Subject: Re: yet another workflow question... Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:19 -0400 Message-ID: <20071011164019.3n4l3rayckck8c4w@intranet.digizenstudio.com> References: <200710111610.55364.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Doyle To: Andy Parkins X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 11 22:40:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ig4pb-0003kB-66 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:40:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754438AbXJKUkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754520AbXJKUkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:22 -0400 Received: from k2smtpout01-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.189.89]:56006 "HELO k2smtpout01-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754329AbXJKUkV (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:21 -0400 Received: (qmail 11343 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2007 20:40:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ip-72-167-33-213.ip.secureserver.net) (72.167.33.213) by k2smtpout01-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.189.88) with ESMTP; 11 Oct 2007 20:40:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by ip-72-167-33-213.ip.secureserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8297E100079; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:40:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-72-167-33-213.ip.secureserver.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ip-72-167-33-213.ip.secureserver.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id h5CziCPceNdP; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ip-72-167-33-213.ip.secureserver.net (Postfix, from userid 48) id DD21E10007A; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailrelay3.private.geico.com (mailrelay3.private.geico.com [205.143.204.110]) by intranet.digizenstudio.com (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200710111610.55364.andyparkins@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Quoting Andy Parkins : > - 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