Re: several quick questions

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:40:24PM CET, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Carl Worth wrote:
> > But I'd still like to be able to do this without having to invent a
> > fake branch name, without the ability to accidentally commit on the
> > fake branch, and without the possibility of accidentally leaving those
> > commits dangling the next time I seek somewhere else.
> 
> Pasky did this before the "multi-branch" thing was common, and calls it 
> "cg-seek". 
> 
> I think that does exactly what you ask for, I just don't really see the 
> point. The downside of cg-seek is that you're really really limited to 
> what you can do with it.
> 
> For example, it may be "overhead" to have a dummy branch for bisection, 
> but it means (for example) that you can actually do real work on the point 
> that "git bisect" points you to.
> 
> For example, if you hit a compile error, you can _literally_ fix that 
> compile error AND COMMIT that state, and when you then mark that commit 
> "good" or "bad" when you continue to bisect, bisection will actually do 
> the right thing. Something that would be impossible in a "seek" 
> environment, where you don't have a branch that you can do development on.

That's a neat idea - I like this. I just tweaked cg-commit -f so that it
will now override the cg-seek block, with a warning that you should be
content about your commit being thrown away.

Really, except this blocking restriction (which is really a check for a
non-empty .git/blocked file), cg-seek does exactly the fake branch
thing, as you actually persuaded me to do. So you are on a dedicated
seeking branch and theoretically you can do development on it - it's
only too easy to lose the commits.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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