lördag 14 juli 2007 skrev David Woodhouse: > On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 20:44 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 01:36:33AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > Yeah, much of it. Although I've also seen other people trying to get > > > to grips with git and tripping up over branches recently. > > > > Could you give any details? What specifically was it they were having > > trouble with? > > Just conversations on IRC where stuff had to be explained. People not > understanding that they'd actually cloned _multiple_ branches and they > needed to select the one they wanted, making the same kind of stupid > mistakes I did with committing to the wrong place, etc. Nothing specific > stands out as being fixable, certainly. That's why there are scripts that modify the bash prompt to show the current branch. I made one for stacked git (it works with plain git too). The git completion scripts have something also I think It helps a lot for those of us with bad memory implants. > 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. Branches are bad if you don't need them as is any feature you don't need is bad, it is just that many people need branches. Branches are a pain to manage with many SCM tools, except git, which solves most of the problems with branches. -- robin - 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
