From: Tommy Thorn <tommy-git@thorn.ws>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:26:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Question about your git habits
Message-ID: <47BF765F.9010706@thorn.ws>
In-Reply-To: <200802221837.37680.chase.venters@clientec.com>

Chase Venters wrote:
> My question is: If you're working on multiple things at once, do you tend to 
> clone the entire repository repeatedly into a series of separate working 
> directories and do your work there, then pull that work (possibly comprising 
> a series of "temporary" commits) back into a separate local master 
> respository with --squash, either into "master" or into a branch containing 
> the new feature?
>   

IMO, that approach scales poorly and involves a lot of overhead.

> Or perhaps you create a temporary topical branch for each thing you are 
> working on, and commit arbitrary changes then checkout another branch when 
> you need to change gears, finally --squashing the intermediate commits when a 
> particular piece of work is done?
>   

Spot on.


Distribution prune for relevance.

Tommy