From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ib@wupperonline.de (Ingo Brueckl) Subject: question concerning branches Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:45:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4a8c51f5@wupperonline.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 19 21:46:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mdr7W-0002Br-Ho for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:46:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751994AbZHSTqq (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:46:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751956AbZHSTqq (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:46:46 -0400 Received: from smtp.tal.de ([81.92.1.5]:35579 "EHLO smtp.tal.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751048AbZHSTqp (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:46:45 -0400 Received: from ib (i528C3684.versanet.de [82.140.54.132]) by smtp.tal.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 61D3FAC2718; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:46:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: blueMail 1.4 (SlipDoor 2.2) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski writes: > You finish old work (or stash it away), _then_ you begin new work. Ok, this helps me a little bit to understand. The branches aren't designed to split my work, but rather something to collect the different parts of my work. But as software development often is something where you are coding on several issues at the same time which can't be committed immediately, it sounds that 'stash' is the developer's best friend. Ingo