On Thursday 08 Feb 2007, Sammy Larbi wrote:
> > You shouldn't get hung up on always having a working HEAD.
> Why do you say that?  I've always been taught not to break builds when
> you check-in code.  Wouldn't that require being hung up on that?

Who cares if HEAD is broken ? 
Not the real web site, because that's on a locked down branch, right ?
Not the QA/test site, because that's running against a tag, no ?
So it's only you and your fellow developers. If you have some massive, 
going-to-take-weeks  change to make, but still want to check in at internal 
checkpoints in case your hard disk catches fire, you should be on a branch. 
If you are hacking at the one file that has a problem, a quick IM or shout 
around the room should be all that is needed to make sure no one else is 
goind to update to the 'funny' revision. The only time other dev. members 
should be running an update is if they are working on a file after someone 
else has done with it.

-- 
Tom Chiverton
Helping to advantageously supply fourth-generation functionalities

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