Re: How to create independent branches

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 8, 2006, 22:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0604090006230.9176@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060408205747.GT27689@pasky.or.cz>

Hi,

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:49:04PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> > 
> > My "todo" branch is not even part of my main git repository.  I
> > just have two independent repositories (git and todo) locally,
> > and push into the same public repository.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to separate it to two distinct public repositories
> as well? It's confusing people and encouraging a practice that really
> isn't very feasible and practical in Git.

How so? I find it highly practical, and do it myself. For example, I track a project which is not version-controlled at all. So I have a "branch" in git where I keep the tools to fake that version-controlling. And git makes it easy to just fetch the changes of both the project and my tools.

Ciao, Dscho