Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg > maintenance)"): >> On Friday 29 February 2008 6:16:59 am Otavio Salvador wrote: >> > That's why you should avoid using the branch as basis to others until >> > it's clean and also avoid to make it public (without a reason) too. >> >> Whatever happened to "release early, release often"? > > Quite so. > > Also, Otavio is quite wrong to suggest that I shouldn't have based my > experimental flex branch on the triggers branch. To do otherwise > would have made conflicts inevitable because the two overlap; I would > have had to do my flex work based on the old code and then do parts of > them again, with a merge trainwreck to sort out.
You can use them as basis but after they have been cleaned to useless commits and made logical. I do it all the time and it works fine. Also, doing that, is very simple to rebase your other branches against a new one. You could use git rebase --into. -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]