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Re: An alternate model for preparing partial commits

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 27, 2008, 23:14 UTC
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"Robert Anderson" <rwa000@gmail.com> writes:
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> There are good reasons for desiring a workflow that does not routinely
> change history as part of the usual workflow.  Maybe there are clones
> of your repo.  Maybe as part of your workflow discipline you do not
> want HEAD states that cannot be pushed to public, because you don't
> want to manually keep track of when it is ok and when it is not ok to
> push HEAD to public, since git cannot tell you this.

Surely you can arrange that. You keep track of what you pushed out, and you refrain from rebasing beyond that point.

And fast-forward check in the push to the public will notice if you break that "workflow discipline" by accident.

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  1. Robert AndersonJun 27, 2008
  2. Björn SteinbrinkJun 27, 2008
  3. stash: introduce 'stash save --keep-index' optionSZEDER Gábor, Jun 27, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  5. Robert AndersonJun 27, 2008
  6. Björn SteinbrinkJun 27, 2008
  7. Robert AndersonJun 27, 2008
  8. Johannes SixtJun 27, 2008
  9. Robert AndersonJun 27, 2008
  10. Petr BaudisJun 27, 2008
  11. Robert AndersonJun 27, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinJun 27, 2008
  13. Miklos VajnaJun 27, 2008
  14. Robert AndersonJun 27, 2008
  15. Johannes SchindelinJun 27, 2008
  16. Robert AndersonJun 27, 2008
  17. Dana HowJun 27, 2008
  18. Stephen SinclairJun 27, 2008
  19. David JeskeJun 27, 2008
  20. David JeskeAug 13, 2016
  21. Wincent ColaiutaJun 28, 2008
  22. Dmitry PotapovJun 28, 2008
  23. Robert AndersonJun 28, 2008
  24. Dmitry PotapovJun 28, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  26. Robert AndersonJun 27, 2008
  27. Jeff KingJun 28, 2008
  28. Robert AndersonJun 28, 2008
  29. Jeff KingJun 28, 2008
  30. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2008
  31. Johannes SchindelinJun 28, 2008
  32. Jeff KingJul 8, 2008
  33. David JeskeJun 27, 2008
  34. Jakub NarebskiJun 27, 2008
  35. David JeskeJun 27, 2008
  36. David JeskeAug 13, 2016
  37. David JeskeAug 13, 2016
  38. Robert AndersonJun 27, 2008
  39. Robert AndersonJun 27, 2008
  40. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  41. Robert AndersonJun 28, 2008
  42. Dmitry PotapovJun 28, 2008
  43. Robert AndersonJun 28, 2008
  44. Stephen SinclairJun 28, 2008
  45. Robert AndersonJun 28, 2008
  46. Robert AndersonJun 28, 2008
  47. Jakub NarebskiJun 28, 2008
  48. Robert AndersonJun 28, 2008
  49. David JeskeJun 28, 2008
  50. David JeskeAug 13, 2016
  51. Stephen SinclairJun 28, 2008
  52. David JeskeJun 28, 2008
  53. David JeskeAug 13, 2016
  54. Fwd: An alternate model for preparing partial commitsRobert Anderson, Jun 28, 2008
  55. Dmitry PotapovJun 28, 2008
  56. Robert AndersonJun 28, 2008
  57. Dmitry PotapovJun 28, 2008

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