On Thursday 2007 October 11, Jing Xue wrote: > Quoting Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx>: > > - Mobility. This one is a bit distributed, but I hope you'll let > > me have it. > > I often do work on my desktop at home, my desktop at work and my > > laptop. By setting my remotes up correctly in git it's really easy to > > walk to another system and pick up exactly where I left off from the > > other computer. More importantly though, when you accidentally make > > changes in two places, there is no danger of data loss. > > To extend on this point, after picking up the randomly checked-in save > point on another computer, the save point itself can be easily > git-reset'ed. So there won't be commits like "it's utter broken but i > got to go home" polluting the history. I find that extremely handy. Absolutely; in fact I've had times when I've done things like this: git merge laptop-branch git merge home-branch git reset HEAD^^ That is to say, I'm not interested in documenting the merges, I just want to bring a set of changes from different places together ready for some proper commits, which of course can be done really easily with git add -i. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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
