On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote: > If production branches follow that rule then there will be broken > commits that won't build. A feature, or fix, will not land atomically, > but in all its constituent parts. That's the thing we are striving to > avoid. >
Well a feature or fix for a production branch should only land in production branch generally except if it's come from the master and can be applied cleanly. Most of the time it needs small changes to work and is definitely not the same commit that we can have on the master. (People that are actually editing a commit from master to be applied on a production branch should die in hell ;) ) In short all commits are atomic in their context. So the problem doesn't exist in my mind when you apply the git workflow - benoit
