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Re: Howto request: going home in the middle of something?

From
JXJing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date
Oct 23, 2007, 17:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20071023135655.x6g6mln1j4880wog@intranet.digizenstudio.com>
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<200710221044.24191.wielemak@science.uva.nl>
Quoting Jan Wielemaker <wielemak@science.uva.nl>:
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> Thanks for the replies.	 I think I can live with something like this
>
> 	<work, in the middle of something>
> 	$ git checkout -b home
> 	$ git commit
> 	$ git checkout master
> 	<arriving at home>
> 	$ git jan@work:repo fetch home:home	(using ssh)
> 	$ git checkout home
> 	<continue editing>
> 	$ git commit --amend
> 	$ git checkout master
> 	$ git merge home
> 	$ git -d home
> 	$ git commit
> 	$ git push
> 	<arriving at work>
> 	$ git -d home
> 	$ git pull
>
> Its still a bit many commands and you have to be aware what you are
> doing for quite a while, but it does provide one single clean commit
> message, doesn't change the shared repo until all is finished and allows
> to abandon all work without leaving traces.

What does the extra branch gain for us here? That's not a rhetorical question, I'm actually curious to learn, because I always just commit, switch to another computer, pull, and reset HEAD^.

Thanks.
-- 
Jing Xue
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  1. Jan WielemakerOct 18, 2007
  2. Johannes SixtOct 18, 2007
  3. Karl HasselströmOct 18, 2007
  4. Petr BaudisOct 18, 2007
  5. Jan WielemakerOct 22, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 22, 2007
  7. Jing XueOct 23, 2007
  8. Jan WielemakerOct 23, 2007
  9. Matthias KestenholzOct 23, 2007
  10. Jing XueOct 24, 2007
  11. Andy ParkinsOct 18, 2007

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