Re: git versus CVS (versus bk)

From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Nov 1, 2005, 23:56 UTC
Message-ID: <200511012356.jA1NuPBd004502@inti.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:

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> In practice, a new developer will often roll up commits to avoid
> sending a string of shameful patches and corrections on top -- I often
> do that ;-) . Developers with more "mana" will have published repos
> where Junio pulls directly from -- and they get merged with full
> history. Of course -- they don't have brown-paper-bag commits like I
> do...

I bet they have a scratchpad on their laptop (full of brown-paper-bag commits and backtracking) from which they push into a cleaned up repository for public consumption.

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