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From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web•de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail•com>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control (was: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:05:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904292205.38530.markus.heidelberg@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090429072105.GD22593@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King, 29.04.2009:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:55:29AM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> 
> > So from Eric's perspective, it is worthwhile to work on all those
> > issues, and get the right for the end user -- support things we don't
> > like, offer foolproof catches and warnings that prevent the user from
> > shooting their lovely toes off to mars, etc.
> 
> I read a few of his blog postings. He kept complaining about the
> features of git that I like the most. :)
> 
> I can see his arguments about how
> "add -p" can be dangerous

Actually, I don't see a very special case here with committing a never
compiled/tested worktree state. You can do this with every VCS (without
an index like git) with just selectively committing files instead of the
whole current worktree.

Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-27  8:55 Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach Martin Langhoff
2009-04-28 11:24 ` Cross-Platform Version Control (was: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach) Jakub Narebski
2009-04-28 21:00   ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-04-29  6:55   ` Martin Langhoff
2009-04-29  7:21     ` Jeff King
2009-04-29 20:05       ` Markus Heidelberg [this message]
2009-04-29  7:52     ` Cross-Platform Version Control Jakub Narebski
2009-04-29  8:25       ` Martin Langhoff
2009-04-28 18:16 ` Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach Jakub Narebski
2009-04-29  7:54   ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-04-30 12:17   ` Why Git is so fast (was: Re: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach) Jakub Narebski
2009-04-30 12:56     ` Michael Witten
2009-04-30 15:28       ` Why Git is so fast Jakub Narebski
2009-04-30 18:52         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-30 20:36           ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-04-30 20:40             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-30 21:36               ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-05-01  0:23                 ` Steven Noonan
2009-05-01  1:25                   ` James Pickens
2009-05-01  9:19                   ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-05-01  9:34                     ` Mike Hommey
2009-05-01  9:42                       ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-05-01 17:42                 ` Tony Finch
2009-05-01  5:24             ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-05-01  9:42               ` Mike Hommey
2009-05-01 10:46                 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-04-30 18:43       ` Why Git is so fast (was: Re: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach) Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-30 14:22     ` Jeff King
2009-05-01 18:43       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-01 19:08         ` Jeff King
2009-05-01 19:13           ` david
2009-05-01 19:32             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-01 21:17           ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-05-01 21:37           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-01 22:11             ` david
2009-04-30 18:56     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-30 19:16       ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-04  8:01         ` Why Git is so fast Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-30 19:33       ` Jakub Narebski

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