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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it)
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:34:48
Message-Id: 7842802.zFfGLWZzxy@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it) by Kent Fredric
1 On Monday 15 September 2014 11:27:34 Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On 15 September 2014 11:21, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
3 > > iow, git doesn't allow people to work on more than one item at a time?
4 > >
5 > > That'd mean I need half a dozen checkouts just to emulate cvs, which
6 > > somehow
7 > > doesn't make much sense to me ...
8 >
9 > Use the Stash. Or just commit items, then swap branches, and then discard
10 > the commits sometime later before pushing.
11 >
12 > Unlike CVS, git doesn't force you to work in "Keep millions of files in
13 > uncommitted states" mode just to work on a codebase, due to the commit <->
14 > replicate seperation.
15 But that's the feature!
16
17 I can work on bumping postgresql (takes about 1h walltime to compile and test
18 all versions) *and* work on a few tiny python packages while doing that.
19 Without breaking either process. Without multiple checkouts.
20
21 I doubt stash would allow things to progress ... but it's a cute idea.

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