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Re: Using a different index and HEAD

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Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date
Nov 21, 2010, 15:16 UTC
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On 11/13/10 6:25 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Enrico Weigelt<weigelt@metux.de>  writes:
>
>> I'm currently thinking about an IDE toolkit entirely based on git,
>> which eg. versions every single file save operation (so, IOW: an
>> separately versioned workdir) automatically and later allows to
>> rebase/rework this to tell what really gets committed to the
>> actual working branch. For this multiple indices and refs/HEAD
>> pointers would be very helpful.
> UGFWIWNI (Using Git For What It Was Not Intended) ;-) ?

I haven't seen anyone UGFWIINI for in a long time. Either that or my perception of 'not intended for' has changed. Maybe we should make a second round of the contest and see what use cases people came up with since the first UGFWIINI round (it's been almost two years). I'd certainly be interested :)

tom
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  1. Enrico WeigeltNov 13, 2010
  2. Jakub NarebskiNov 13, 2010
  3. Tomas CarneckyNov 21, 2010
  4. Enrico WeigeltNov 13, 2010
  5. Jonathan NiederNov 13, 2010

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