From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:47:04 GMT
Subject: Re: "Branch objects" (was: Re: cherry picking and merge)
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1408071829470.13901@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20140807172207.GP23449@localhost>

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 05:42:34PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that the production branch gets copied around: pushed to
> > the repo server, pulled by other team members, etc. Forced pushes
> > are accident-prone, as is resetting a rebased branch after a pull.
>
> When I rebase and I need the old HEAD around I do something like this:
> [...]
> Either way I retain the old HEAD with some name.

Hmm, yes, I can see that would work. However my previous workflow was
rather branch-heavy and I found the accumulation of names annoying. I have
not yet had enough usage out of git-repub to see if it goes too far in the
direction of lack-of-names. A big omission is no opportunity to edit its
commit messages.

Tony.
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