From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:55:22 GMT
Subject: Re: How has learning the advanced features of git helped you to write software more effectively?
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Tim Harper <timcharper@gmail.com> writes:

> Out of the shoot, you get a lot of value learning the basic features
> of git: easy branching, merging, etc.  How has learning the advanced
> features of git (bisect, rebase, rebase -i, add -p, etc.) helped you
> to write software more effectively?

Git does not have much if anything to do with writing software more
effectively.  Crappy programmers can create (and have created I am sure)
clean history that is easy to understand how tons of bugs have been
carried forward, and you can side port the bugs with ease across branches
in such a history.