Re: [git-users] reverting back to earlier version to find a bug

2017-12-10 Thread Philip Oakley
Ross, One extra thing. Have a look at the git.git Sumbitting patches guidelines (https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches#L44 #L102, etc.) about writing commit messages, and reveiw the suggested patch messages in the git mailing list

Re: [git-users] reverting back to earlier version to find a bug

2017-12-10 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi Russ, The two matras I see are: "Branches are cheap, very cheap" "Git gives (distibutes) control to You" This means you can branch and commit early and commit often (locally), even when it might 'break the build' if pushed upstream. (make sure you have this capability - some shops can't

Re: [git-users] reverting back to earlier version to find a bug

2017-12-10 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, December 09, 2017 11:32:32 PM Russ P wrote: > How would it be implemented? I suppose it would be done by the build > system. I am using Scala and sbt. Could sbt be made to automatically do a > commit every time it builds successfully? I don't see why not. Heck, maybe > it has that