On 03/03/13 11:26, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote:
The confusion there would be public vs private branches (never publishto a public branch that _will_ be used by team mates). But I would still expect that individual developers would need to fixup and rework their private branches before publishing to a public branch. And if they have two machines they need to be able to synchronise their private branch between the machines, which is my use case as I get to grips with Linux/Ubuntu. How about creating a computer-specific branch, instead of both computers working on "master", you work from home on a branch "wip-home" and at work you use the branch "wip-work". Then, occasionally, or before you want to merge your work to master, you create a "wip-prepare" where you cherry-pick, merge and rebase whatever you want from the wip branches. Regarding the intuitiveness/documentation of git rebase.. I think that's basically what separates Git from Mercurial, with their immutable and static public branches. At this stage, I don't know if there's anything we can do but say "you just need to fully grok rebase and reset when using Git extensively". It bothers me, but at the moment I can't think of an option for this.
In my case the computers are 3 metres (~8ft) apart in adjacent rooms due to lack of space so I'm working on them in rapid succession (edit on one; compile and test on the other), so a single fixed branch name is the most suitable for me in this case.
Though, like you say, if it was a home <-> work transfer things would be different, with separate branches, but I'd still expect a reset at some point.
Rebase conflates two activities, the first is the 'forward port' or 'move' activity where you want to move a series to be on top of a new place. While the second is the --interactive case where you need to tweak, adjust, re-order, or otherwise edit, *in-place*, your existing changes _before_ publishing the whiter than white freshly washed patch series. It's the latter case of transferring one's dirty washing between rooms without others seeing that I was stuck on ;-)
It probably merits a sentence in the 'Recovering from an upstream rebase' section to cover a 'simple' case where it isn't 'upstream' that rebased, rather it was oneself (origin) simply transferring between machines.
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