On Friday 11 May 2007, Doug Bezona wrote:
>  Yup - the breakage will be picked up, and will waste someone elses time
> while they figure out what is causing the breakage, whose responsibility is
> to fix it, etc.

We all sit next to each other :-)

> Back up the developers machines then.

You'll be suggesting we backup all 2000-plus desktop machines next, rather 
than storing 'my documents' on the network.

> If the changes are substantial enough that a dev may go more than a day or
> two without commitng, then use a branch -  THAT's what they are for.

I agree there.

> You never know if any of your revisions actually work, since you encourage
> broken code to be checked in, so you are relying only on the versions you
> choose to create via a branch or tag if you need to roll any code back to a
> previous state.

Yes.

-- 
Tom Chiverton
Helping to ambassadorially repurpose frictionless appliances
on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com

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