On Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 16:00:23 (-0500) Nicolas Pitre writes: >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. Ok, so I break the model, what is the harm in that? Can I no longer pull from or push to the remote branch? Do I corrupt something locally? Does something else break? I'm trying to formulate an explanation to our users why the 1.5 way is superior and I can't just say "if you do that you break the model". Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html