Re: Dangers of working on a tracking branch

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2007, 21:21 UTC
Message-ID: <17876.52962.662946.582507@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702151557410.1757@xanadu.home>

On Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 16:00:23 (-0500) Nicolas Pitre writes:

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>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.

Ok, so I break the model, what is the harm in that? Can I no longer pull from or push to the remote branch? Do I corrupt something locally? Does something else break? I'm trying to formulate an explanation to our users why the 1.5 way is superior and I can't just say "if you do that you break the model".

Bill