Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 21 Sep 2014 21:46:14 -0400 as excerpted: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: >> hasufell wrote: >>> > A version bump plus cleaning up older ebuilds will be considered one >>> > logical change, I suppose? >>> >>> I'd consider it two logical changes ... >>> But I don't have a strong opinion on that >> >> I do - I think this is really important. Having clean history makes a >> huge difference for anyone who wants to use that history. >> >> One argument against those clean professional development practices >> that comes up over and over is that it takes more time... >> but since git makes committing so easy usually the difference isn't >> very big, and the payoff when you benefit in the future is quite >> significant. > > ++ > > A git commit is virtually instantaneous since it is entirely local.
Unlike CVS, git commit != git push, and understanding that is vital to effective us of git /as/ /git/. Commit is local and fast; it HAS to be to encourage single-logical-change commits. But you can separately commit one or a dozen or a dozen hundred logical changes as part of a single set or a few sets of commits and push them all at once, /just/ once. Devs doing gentoo all day could easily do one or two pushes a day, with many commits in each. Those with less time might do the same work over several days or a week and might push just once or twice that week, if none of the changes are time-critical enough to be worth a more urgent push. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
