From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:00:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Dangers of working on a tracking branch
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702151557410.1757@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <17876.51013.561979.431717@lisa.zopyra.com>

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

> We are about to switch to git 1.5 from git 1.4.4.1.  I cannot remember
> if someone posted about this, but what is the danger of working on a
> tracking branch --- there are abundant cautions about doing this, but
> I can't recall and can't find the reason this is bad.

A tracking branch is supposed to be a local mirror of what is available 
remotely.  If you commit local changes to it then you break that model.

This is why with Git 1.5.0 tracking branches are in a different 
namespace by default to which you cannot commit.


Nicolas