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

From
JXJing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date
Oct 24, 2007, 13:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20071024134414.GA15710@falcon.digizenstudio.com>
In-Reply-To
<256C87B5-3ADE-4A96-9530-A45B97601BAA@spinlock.ch>
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 10:28:46PM +0200, Matthias Kestenholz wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
Show 10 quoted lines
> If someone tracks the main branch you are working on and fetches
> while you are travelling home, he has the WIP commit as a new tip
> in his tree.
> If he bases further work upon the WIP commit, he'll need to rebase
> or merge his changes onto your new tip once you have amended or
> replaced the commit. If you are working on the
> master branch, you should really avoid rewinding it. Rewinding topic
> branches is ok, but a temporary branch is still better to clearly tell
> potential fetch-ers that this is only Work in Progress, and not meant
> to be published in the current state.

Good point. Although I guess if some workflow lets you directly hack on a public branch, it can have lots of other issues beyond just the WIP being pulled accidentally, no?

Cheers.
-- 
Jing Xue
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Message 10 of 11 in “Howto request: going home in the middle of something?”
  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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