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.
