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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
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 23:27:39
Message-Id: CAATnKFCLrbtE+pzkeY3gbfzUY2cqcFosEaru+mm-us8FsZK9VQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it) by Patrick Lauer
1 On 15 September 2014 11:21, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
2
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
10 Use the Stash. Or just commit items, then swap branches, and then discard
11 the commits sometime later before pushing.
12
13 Unlike CVS, git doesn't force you to work in "Keep millions of files in
14 uncommitted states" mode just to work on a codebase, due to the commit <->
15 replicate seperation.
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19 Kent
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21 *KENTNL* - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL

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