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

From: Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch>
Date: Oct 23, 2007, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <256C87B5-3ADE-4A96-9530-A45B97601BAA@spinlock.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20071023135655.x6g6mln1j4880wog@intranet.digizenstudio.com>

Hi,

On 23.10.2007, at 19:56, Jing Xue wrote:

> 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^.

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.

Matthias

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