On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot@gmail.com> wrote:
Hm.. I must be not understanding something.. Are you arguing that not all commits/check-ins you do to a local/private repository are important enough to merit the benefits of collaboration? I ask because my contention is that if it's important enough for you to put something into a VCS history, it's important enough for you collaborators to inspect it.. for perpetuity. And that the sooner that inspection happens the better it is for everyone. Hence that deleting such history is counter to collaboration.
I would guess, yes, the argument is that not all local commits are important enough. I hit Ctrl-S more often than I commit to a (central) VCS. I do a local commit at a frequency somewhere between Ctrl-S and central-commit. I see no problem there. Many people find that mid-frequency commit quite an attractive feature. P.S. I am currently in the "I hate Git" camp. I'm trying to use it, but one of us is not yielding to the other. I typically understand things quite quickly (except women - still working on that), but I find git hard to wrap my head around. And I don't think VC should be hard to get started with - no other system I've used has been as hard. They can be hard for complicated things, and maybe git excels at those, but I find it harder than necessary for relatively simple things. I assume I will eventually appreciate how it works. Eventually. I also find all the docs, tutorials, etc atrocious. I hope to be able to write something better once I understand it, but I fear by then I will have gone over to the other side and will just write the same only-makes-sense-if-you-already-understand-it stuff that everyone else has written. Tony