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Re: Why is it important to learn git?

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 22, 2009, 18:15 UTC
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<200907220952.27385.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Heya,
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:52, Thomas Rast<trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
>  Learning to make nice, reviewable, working, one-change-per-revision
>  commits.
I very much agree with those values, but also
  Commit early, commit often

It's very convenient to be able to go back to/diff with a previous version later on, running 'git commit -am "got x half-working"' takes only a few seconds, but can save hours later on when you got x totally-not-working-at-all-anymore.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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  3. Sverre RabbelierJul 22, 2009
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  5. Jeff KingJul 23, 2009
  6. Andreas EricssonAug 4, 2009
  7. Scott ChaconJul 22, 2009
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  9. Jakub NarebskiJul 22, 2009
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