Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce git-run-with-user-path helper program.

TG> Hello,

TG> I disagree here. We at FAUmachine often have FLAGS to turn on specific TG> features or debugging output by tweaking a headerfile.

So what? I would understand that in your workflow, the nature of that never-committed headerfile (the fact it only has debugging tweaks and contains nothing substantially risky) practically minimizes the risk to the level everybody in the group feels acceptable.

That does not, however, change what I stated in the document: what you have in the repository is something that never existed in a work tree as a consistent whole and tested.

You are only saying is that it does not practically matter in your workflow, only because what is floating (not checked in) are things you feel safe to drift. I would not dare say that is a wrong way to work.

However, I feel fairly strong about this after being burned many times by careless coleagues who forgot to check in either newly created files or locally modified files and finding problems only after customer installation happened.