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Re: Dangers of working on a tracking branch

From
Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date
Feb 16, 2007, 16:40 UTC
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<17877.56939.79093.519874@lisa.zopyra.com>
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On Friday, February 16, 2007 at 11:34:01 (-0500) Nicolas Pitre writes:
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>On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>
>> Ok, I'm trying to come up with an experiment that verifies this, so
>> I can give a concrete example to our developers.
>> 
>> I don't seem to be able to get it to fail, but I sure remember having
>> severe problems with this in practice.
>
>Try this:

Ok, that's basically what I was looking for --- incontrovertible evidence from "them" (a git expert --- not me). Thanks very much Nicolas.

Bill
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  1. Bill LearFeb 15, 2007
  2. Nicolas PitreFeb 15, 2007
  3. Bill LearFeb 15, 2007
  4. Bill LearFeb 15, 2007
  5. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2007
  6. Bill LearFeb 15, 2007
  7. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2007
  8. Bill LearFeb 15, 2007
  9. Shawn O. PearceFeb 15, 2007
  10. Bill LearFeb 15, 2007
  11. Shawn O. PearceFeb 15, 2007
  12. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2007
  13. Bill LearFeb 15, 2007
  14. Jakub NarebskiFeb 16, 2007
  15. Bill LearFeb 16, 2007
  16. Jeff KingFeb 16, 2007
  17. Bill LearFeb 16, 2007
  18. Jeff KingFeb 16, 2007
  19. Santi BéjarFeb 16, 2007
  20. Nicolas PitreFeb 16, 2007
  21. Bill LearFeb 16, 2007
  22. Nicolas PitreFeb 15, 2007

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