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From: Jay Levitt <jay.levitt@gmail.com>
To: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Rewriting history and public-private-ish branches
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:33:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF08086.6080606@gmail.com> (raw)

I frequently conflate git-as-version-control with git-as-deployer when I'm 
editing on my Mac but testing on a server.  I'll do things like...


Mac: checkout -b origin/topic-branch
Mac: make a major change, commit and push
server: pull
[do while buggy]
   server: discover a typo
   Mac: fix the typo, commit and push
   server: pull
[end]
Mac: squash commits
Mac: checkout master
Mac: merge topic-branch
Mac: branch -d topic-branch
Mac: push origin :topic-branch

As long as I'm the only one who's seen this "published" history, am I doing 
anything bad? Do I leave any residue behind in the repo?

Jay Levitt

             reply	other threads:[~2011-12-20 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-20 12:33 Jay Levitt [this message]
2011-12-21 12:58 ` Rewriting history and public-private-ish branches Peter Krefting

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