Re: Dangers of working on a tracking branch

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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
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