From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:44:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Howto request: going home in the middle of something?
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,

> 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