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Re: yet another workflow question...

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JXJing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date
Oct 11, 2007, 20:40 UTC
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Quoting Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>:
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>  - Mobility.  This one is a bit distributed, but I hope you'll let   
> me have it.
>    I often do work on my desktop at home, my desktop at work and my laptop.
>    By setting my remotes up correctly in git it's really easy to walk to
>    another system and pick up exactly where I left off from the other
>    computer.  More importantly though, when you accidentally make changes in
>    two places, there is no danger of data loss.

To extend on this point, after picking up the randomly checked-in save point on another computer, the save point itself can be easily git-reset'ed. So there won't be commits like "it's utter broken but i got to go home" polluting the history. I find that extremely handy.

Cheers.
-- 
Jing Xue
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Message 8 of 9 in “yet another workflow question...”
  1. Patrick DoyleOct 11, 2007
  2. David KastrupOct 11, 2007
  3. Steffen ProhaskaOct 11, 2007
  4. Johannes SixtOct 11, 2007
  5. Wincent ColaiutaOct 11, 2007
  6. Andy ParkinsOct 11, 2007
  7. Andreas EricssonOct 11, 2007
  8. Jing XueOct 11, 2007
  9. Andy ParkinsOct 12, 2007

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