I still don't see what problem this fixes. And having to work with something thats sucks for weeks while you're knee deep into a release/contribution is causing problems that weren't there. And more importantly: I don't see what this does for the project that needed to be done so desperately that we couldn't get a couple of days advance warning so we could at least commit our outstanding changes and finish the release(s) that were in progress?
EdB On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Michael A. Labriola <labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: > Erik, > >>What advantage is having a local repo to having a local working copy? >>It seems to me that all it does is add an extra layer between me and my >>co-contributors. I need to 'commit' to my local repo and then 'push' to get >>it out to the world, where before only a >'commit' was needed... > > It will seem that way at first. Don't expect your first couple of weeks to be > happy, but I promise it gets better. The big advantage is having local > branching, roll back, staging and the ability to work completely offline. The > thing is that it's a totally different workflow so it's hard to compare git > versus svn accurately. > > My git workflow is constant committing and branching locally (all of which > are nearly 0 overhead in git). It allows me to task switch very easily, to > try things out and roll back when they don't work. I can be in the middle of > a task, stash the half-baked code, switch over to do a bug fix, and then > switch back and resume my state. > > I make potentially dozens if not hundreds of branches in the course of a day > when I am really coding. Out of all of those branches and commits, I perhaps > push 1 or 2 up to the outside world. Its more about local code organization > and local workspace management and then sharing the daily or hourly results > of those efforts. > > I can promise this will suck for you at first. You are asking all of the > question I did and I frankly hated git and was frustrated with it for weeks. > Now I strongly dislike when someone makes me use SVN. It feels clunky and > inelegant. > > Mike > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
