Re: Git needs a KISSa

2013-04-08 Thread Jose Barragan
I'm totally agree with Mike, In fact, I use that simple criterion: make a new branch for any action and work, share, stash, commit any thing into it if original branch is updated, we need merge the original advances using fast forward resolution (try to move the local pointer of our topic bran

RE: Git needs a KISSa

2013-04-06 Thread Michael A. Labriola
> Your link says "Merge is perfectly fine for managing your code." The > only drawback it mentions is a more cluttered log. It has far stronger > warnings about misusing rebase. > > How could anyone read this conclusion > > > 1. Merge works great, but creates lots of empty merge commits when

Re: Git needs a KISSa

2013-04-06 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > At least, nobody has gotten on my case for screwing up history. Run gitk to view. You might be surprised. It's reasonable but it's not 100% "clean" (for the SDK anyway). Justin

Re: Git needs a KISSa

2013-04-06 Thread Alex Harui
On 4/5/13 7:22 PM, "Gordon Smith" wrote: > > Your link says "Merge is perfectly fine for managing your code." The only > drawback it mentions is a more cluttered log. It has far stronger warnings > about misusing rebase. > > How could anyone read this conclusion > > > 1. Merge works grea

Re: Git needs a KISSa

2013-04-05 Thread Gordon Smith
Your link says "Merge is perfectly fine for managing your code." The only drawback it mentions is a more cluttered log. It has far stronger warnings about misusing rebase. How could anyone read this conclusion 1. Merge works great, but creates lots of empty merge commits when you are worki

Re: Git needs a KISSa

2013-04-05 Thread Gordon Smith
> Unfortunately that won't prevent it. Please explain why not. - Gordon Sent from my iPad On Apr 5, 2013, at 6:21 PM, "Michael A. Labriola" wrote: > Gordon and Justin, > >> I agree that it would be bad to edit 2 files, do a 'git pull' followed by a >> 'git status', and see changes to 200

Re: Git needs a KISSa

2013-04-05 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Incidentally, this is why is most larger open source projects... see linux > (or even what we did on FlexUnit in git) have a very few number of people who > knew git well that managed the actual develop and master branches. Could that work for us? (With committers pushing to develop that i

RE: Git needs a KISSa

2013-04-05 Thread Michael A. Labriola
Gordon and Justin, >I agree that it would be bad to edit 2 files, do a 'git pull' followed by a >'git status', and see changes to 200 files from other people mingling with >your changes to 2. The simple way to prevent this is to commit your changes >before pulling in other people's changes (I t