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Space-efficient checkouts

Space-efficient checkouts

Posted Mar 20, 2008 11:15 UTC (Thu) by engla (guest, #47454)
In reply to: Space-efficient checkouts by incase
Parent article: Emacs chooses Bazaar

A git user would use a "topic branch" for each such string of unacknowledged changes. Then
when you have evalutated the changes just merge the branch or delete it at will.

Arguably a system that doesn't let you commit for days reminds me of svn, patch+diff or
similar old-fashioned systems.


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