From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:09:21 GMT Subject: Re: How to create independent branches Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060408205747.GT27689@pasky.or.cz> Hi, On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:49:04PM CEST, I got a letter > where Junio C Hamano 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