Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:12:11 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin | From | Wayne Scott <> |
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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> > If so, what you are describing is called "hacking" in the negative > sense of the word, and what my customers do is called "programming". > It's quite rare to see the sort of mess that you described, it happens, > but it is rare. I don'tknow how else to explain it, but it is not the > norm in the professional world to try a zillion different approaches > and revision control each and every one. > > The norm is: > clone a repository > edit the files > modify/compile/debug until it works > check in > push the patch up the shared repository
Or they create do a line of development in a repository with commits and then determine that it wasn't working. No problem throw it away and start over from a clean copy. Since the repositories are distributed, private branches just disappear if you don't like them.
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