From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:40:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Dangers of working on a tracking branch
Message-ID: <17877.56939.79093.519874@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.0.82.0702161044100.18370@xanadu.home>

On Friday, February 16, 2007 at 11:34:01 (-0500) Nicolas Pitre writes:
>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