From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomas Carnecky Subject: Re: Using a different index and HEAD Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:16:15 +0100 Message-ID: <4CE937BF.9010606@dbservice.com> References: <20101113152906.GA24903@nibiru.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Enrico Weigelt , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 21 16:16:29 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 1PKBeX-0000XI-6l for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:16:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754116Ab0KUPQY (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:16:24 -0500 Received: from office.neopsis.com ([78.46.209.98]:35010 "EHLO office.neopsis.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753573Ab0KUPQX (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:16:23 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL: 0.053,BAYES_00: -1.665,TOTAL_SCORE: -1.612,autolearn=ham X-Spam-Level: Received: from calvin.local ([62.65.141.13]) (authenticated user tom@dbservice.com) by office.neopsis.com (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES256-SHA (256 bits)); Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:16:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 11/13/10 6:25 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Enrico Weigelt writes: > >> I'm currently thinking about an IDE toolkit entirely based on git, >> which eg. versions every single file save operation (so, IOW: an >> separately versioned workdir) automatically and later allows to >> rebase/rework this to tell what really gets committed to the >> actual working branch. For this multiple indices and refs/HEAD >> pointers would be very helpful. > UGFWIWNI (Using Git For What It Was Not Intended) ;-) ? I haven't seen anyone UGFWIINI for in a long time. Either that or my perception of 'not intended for' has changed. Maybe we should make a second round of the contest and see what use cases people came up with since the first UGFWIINI round (it's been almost two years). I'd certainly be interested :) tom