From: Markus Elfring <markus.elfring@web.de>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:00:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarification for the command "git checkout <branch>"
Message-ID: <4BA46469.7020800@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <32541b131003191017rdc4e87fgcc4fabc76e0709be@mail.gmail.com>

> Commits cost almost exactly zero.

The storage costs are negligible. I am more concerned about unwanted work flow
effects because a modification might be committed and suddenly merged too early.


>     git commit -a -m 'FIXME temporary'

The specified message is not independent from a language. I see also a potential
for typos by this approach which will make it harder to distinguish
non-temporary commits from the real ones.

Regards,
Markus