From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dangers of working on a tracking branch
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:00:23 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702151557410.1757@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17876.51013.561979.431717@lisa.zopyra.com>
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
> We are about to switch to git 1.5 from git 1.4.4.1. I cannot remember
> if someone posted about this, but what is the danger of working on a
> tracking branch --- there are abundant cautions about doing this, but
> I can't recall and can't find the reason this is bad.
A tracking branch is supposed to be a local mirror of what is available
remotely. If you commit local changes to it then you break that model.
This is why with Git 1.5.0 tracking branches are in a different
namespace by default to which you cannot commit.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-15 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-15 20:49 Dangers of working on a tracking branch Bill Lear
2007-02-15 21:00 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-02-15 21:21 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-15 21:33 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-15 21:43 ` Jeff King
2007-02-15 21:53 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-15 21:58 ` Jeff King
2007-02-15 22:04 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-15 22:09 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-15 22:40 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-15 22:49 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-15 22:06 ` Jeff King
2007-02-15 22:30 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-16 2:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-16 15:13 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-16 15:21 ` Jeff King
2007-02-16 15:27 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-16 15:52 ` Jeff King
2007-02-16 16:10 ` Santi Béjar
2007-02-16 16:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-16 16:40 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-15 22:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
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