From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:19:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Allow users to require source branch on git-checkout -b.
Message-ID: <20061208061916.GF13999@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061208060850.GE5939@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:59:38AM -0500, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> > Its in the prompt for all of these users; I forced it in as part of
> > the system's /etc/profile.d.  They just forget that they should think
> > about where they should start their branch from before they make it.
> 
> Maybe they don't really want to use topic branches at all?  Could they
> get away with just committing everything to master?  Seems like kind of
> a shame, though.  Hm.

Good idea.  But...

No, because they are working on at least two different unrelated
changes at once, and we aren't sure which will graduate into the
testing environment first.  If the unrelated changes are intermingled
on the same branch then moving one moves both; and often at least
one of those unrelated changes isn't functioning right and could
cause headaches for the testing team.

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