From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:53:46 GMT
Subject: Re: On git 1.6 (novice's opinion)
Message-ID: <37fcd2780903280253t189bf437h2948dd451d4d2179@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wmq5t8d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Ulrich Windl
>> <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> what made me wonder is this (about item 1): I thought I've read that blobs store
>>> content and attributes, so very obviously I wondered why not store thr "right
>>> attributes" (i.e. the time of the file). My reasoning: You make some changes, then
>>> test them (which might last several hours or days). The if I'm happy I'll
>>> "commit".
>>
>> With Git, you usually commit your changes immediately (without waiting
>> the result
>> of testing), because you can always undo commit until you publish your changes.
>
> Heh, "can" and "usually" are somewhat different.  I don't.

Fair enough. But I was refering to the situation where testing may take
several hours or days. Leaving uncommitted changes in your working tree
for a few days is rarely a good idea if you can undo the commit later. Of
course, the situation is different if the testing takes only a couple minutes.

Dmitry