From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano 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 Message-ID: <7v1vo8e62d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Dmitry Potapov , git@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Harper X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 22 23:55:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MTjmg-0001AD-Lh for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:55:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753857AbZGVVz1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:55:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753828AbZGVVz1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:55:27 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:54569 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753049AbZGVVz1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:55:27 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C031004A; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:55:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9F22510049; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:55:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Tim Harper's message of "Wed\, 22 Jul 2009 15\:21\:26 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 5DAB6350-770A-11DE-B79F-F699A5B33865-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Tim Harper 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.