From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Elfring Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarification for the command "git checkout " Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:00:09 +0100 Message-ID: <4BA46469.7020800@web.de> References: <4B67227A.7030908@web.de> <4b8bf32f.0706c00a.26cb.691d@mx.google.com> <4BA104C7.5020207@web.de> <32541b131003170944w7a0215frcace205f32d313bf@mail.gmail.com> <7vaau6q18q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4BA1FC39.10300@web.de> <32541b131003180936x746dad06k386788d3cb6fcdeb@mail.gmail.com> <32541b131003181033p7916d92frc1269b95c292e3db@mail.gmail.com> <4BA335B6.4000103@web.de> <32541b131003191017rdc4e87fgcc4fabc76e0709be@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Witten , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Avery Pennarun X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 20 07:00:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsrjU-00019w-NP for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:00:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751567Ab0CTGAT (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:00:19 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:46598 "EHLO fmmailgate03.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750865Ab0CTGAS (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:00:18 -0400 Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CC914620FE7; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:00:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from [78.48.36.7] (helo=[192.168.1.202]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #4) id 1NsrjN-0000ew-00; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:00:17 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100228 SUSE/3.0.3-1.1.1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 In-Reply-To: <32541b131003191017rdc4e87fgcc4fabc76e0709be@mail.gmail.com> X-Sender: Markus.Elfring@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19xX3PuOGgJS+KU6dRT/weuzeRr9hAJij3PPcsc PAkrrFkeaS36T+n0b6PjrgDW688OH944q1FqMNJfQkxP4sRnNl QXarqwE5+VtVuCvqlQxA== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Commits cost almost exactly zero. The storage costs are negligible. I am more concerned about unwanted work flow effects because a modification might be committed and suddenly merged too early. > git commit -a -m 'FIXME temporary' The specified message is not independent from a language. I see also a potential for typos by this approach which will make it harder to distinguish non-temporary commits from the real ones. Regards, Markus