Patrick Lauer: > On Monday 15 September 2014 11:27:34 Kent Fredric wrote: >> On 15 September 2014 11:21, Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> iow, git doesn't allow people to work on more than one item at a time? >>> >>> That'd mean I need half a dozen checkouts just to emulate cvs, which >>> somehow >>> doesn't make much sense to me ... >> >> Use the Stash. Or just commit items, then swap branches, and then discard >> the commits sometime later before pushing. >> >> Unlike CVS, git doesn't force you to work in "Keep millions of files in >> uncommitted states" mode just to work on a codebase, due to the commit <-> >> replicate seperation. > But that's the feature! > > I can work on bumping postgresql (takes about 1h walltime to compile and test > all versions) *and* work on a few tiny python packages while doing that. > Without breaking either process. Without multiple checkouts. > > I doubt stash would allow things to progress ... but it's a cute idea. >
Please read up about git branches. I don't see anything particularly broken. People use git to work on 10+ different feature at a time. It works. Also, let's not derail this thread to git vs CVS, thanks.
