Re: Bootstrapping into git, commit gripes at me

From: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
Date: Jul 12, 2005, 03:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20050712035315.GA6630@buici.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8y0cg07c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:41:43PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> When I start working on something I often do not know what the
> thing I am going to work on ends up to be.  So I would start
> from v2.6.12 tag, do random hacking, and when I got into a
> reasonable shape, I would say ``Ok, this is worth saving.  Let's
> name it "foobar" branch and continue.''  And I would probably
> switch to some other subproject when an urgent bugfix comes in,
> and I would not want to lose my "master" _then_.  So (the
> "branch" one has been revised):

Isn't that what a tag is for?

  o Make a sandbox
  o Commit cool changes
  o Tag the last commit object
  o Throw sandbox away.
  o Push changes or generate patch based on the tag

The change is that we can create a sandbox by giving it a starting point, a tag. If we decide we want to keep working on this branch, all we'd have to do is go back to that tag, although I admit it may seem sloppy to have to create a new branch from a tag'd commit that we originally part of a branch.