From: Bill Lear Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:21:38 GMT Subject: Re: Dangers of working on a tracking branch Message-ID: <17876.52962.662946.582507@lisa.zopyra.com> In-Reply-To: On Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 16:00:23 (-0500) Nicolas Pitre writes: >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