Re: mtimes of working files

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2007, 01:29 UTC
Message-ID: <f798sr$n1g$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1184374174.2785.104.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>

David Woodhouse wrote:

> Branches have their place, and some people seem very happy with them as
> part of their local workflow. I just wonder if we have to have them on
> the servers too; that's all.

 
Multiple branches in one [public] repository help sharing data. While you
can do similar with sharing object database (via alternates mechanism)
the second solution has drawbacks the multiple branches didn't have.

IIRC multiple branches was not something _planned_ by Linus when creating git; users requested this feature, and it turned out to be useful.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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