From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: mtimes of working files Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:29:02 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20070711202615.GE3069@efreet.light.src> <200707120857.53090.andyparkins@gmail.com> <1184261246.31598.139.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070713003700.GA21304@thunk.org> <1184367619.2785.58.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1184370414.2785.79.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1184373393.2785.99.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070714004433.GB10131@fieldses.org> <1184374174.2785.104.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 14 03:29:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I9WRv-0003wa-SD for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:29:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765541AbXGNB3M (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:29:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765485AbXGNB3K (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:29:10 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39952 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765304AbXGNB3I (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:29:08 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I9WRU-0004Eh-Vr for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:29:04 +0200 Received: from host-89-229-8-65.torun.mm.pl ([89.229.8.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:29:04 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-89-229-8-65.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:29:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-89-229-8-65.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Woodhouse wrote: > Branches have their place, and some people seem very happy with them as > part of their local workflow. I just wonder if we have to have them on > the servers too; that's all. Multiple branches in one [public] repository help sharing data. While you can do similar with sharing object database (via alternates mechanism) the second solution has drawbacks the multiple branches didn't have. IIRC multiple branches was not something _planned_ by Linus when creating git; users requested this feature, and it turned out to be useful. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git