a git plan, long term

[Ian Young]

On 8 Aug 2013, at 23:27, Scott Koranda <skoranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apologies for barging in…

I think comments and experience -- both positive and negative -- from outside the team are particularly welcome.

> I used to think git was just a bright and shiny object until I
> invested a week learning
> it with a real code project. Now I will not choose another version
> control system
> if I have any choice because it has increased my productivity.

This is where my head is at these days too.

> P.S. One of my favorite git features is 'stash'--with one command I
> can take all the current uncommitted edits and have them stashed away
> safely while I go back to master, branch quickly, make a bug fix,
> commit it, push, then "unstash" and pick right up where I left off.
> See
> 
> http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Stashing

For at least some of the things I'm using Git with, I use the GitHub tool for Mac:

	http://mac.github.com/help.html

This does "magic stashing" whenever you switch branches and have uncommitted changes.  This isn't always what you want, but quite often it is.

	-- Ian



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