From: Marc Singer Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:12:35 GMT Subject: Re: Bootstrapping into git, commit gripes at me Message-ID: <20050712051235.GA10930@buici.com> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:59:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Marc Singer wrote: > > > > Does it make sense to think about this branch as an flow of commits? > > Or is it just a starting point for a line of development? > > It's really a flow of commits. Nothing will ever really remember what the > starting point was at some later date if you have done commits, and the > branch will always follow the _head_ of development on that branch. That's the important detail. As an aside, we (a vary large set of developers) have been using SCM tools for how-many-freakin-years and only now am I seeing something sane. Cheers.