From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Tim Harper <timcharper@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How has learning the advanced features of git helped you to write software more effectively?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:55:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1vo8e62d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1a5e9a00907221421m27f0f836t98d361dffc7bd87f@mail.gmail.com> (Tim Harper's message of "Wed\, 22 Jul 2009 15\:21\:26 -0600")
Tim Harper <timcharper@gmail.com> writes:
> Out of the shoot, you get a lot of value learning the basic features
> of git: easy branching, merging, etc. How has learning the advanced
> features of git (bisect, rebase, rebase -i, add -p, etc.) helped you
> to write software more effectively?
Git does not have much if anything to do with writing software more
effectively. Crappy programmers can create (and have created I am sure)
clean history that is easy to understand how tons of bugs have been
carried forward, and you can side port the bugs with ease across branches
in such a history.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-22 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-22 21:21 How has learning the advanced features of git helped you to write software more effectively? Tim Harper
2009-07-22 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-07-22 21:59 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-07-22 22:32 ` Daniel Barkalow
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