From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: On git 1.6 (novice's opinion) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:30:42 -0700 Message-ID: <7v8wmq5t8d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <49CC8C90.12268.242CEFCE@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> <20090327090554.5d6160f2@pc09.procura.nl> <49CCAF5D.21814.24B4DE63@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> <37fcd2780903270524y39456c5fre0a2f8f9c5f4d160@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ulrich Windl , "H.Merijn Brand" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Potapov X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 28 02:32:54 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 1LnNPp-0006Xf-NW for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:32:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758298AbZC1Baw (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:30:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757074AbZC1Baw (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:30:52 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:58448 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755892AbZC1Bav (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:30:51 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE12A5565; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:30:49 -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-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E5E1CA5562; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:30:43 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 118CE756-1B38-11DE-8000-32B0EBB1AA3C-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dmitry Potapov writes: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Ulrich Windl > wrote: >> >> what made me wonder is this (about item 1): I thought I've read that blobs store >> content and attributes, so very obviously I wondered why not store thr "right >> attributes" (i.e. the time of the file). My reasoning: You make some changes, then >> test them (which might last several hours or days). The if I'm happy I'll >> "commit". > > With Git, you usually commit your changes immediately (without waiting > the result > of testing), because you can always undo commit until you publish your changes. Heh, "can" and "usually" are somewhat different. I don't.