[pacman-dev] Git's views versus parallel branches (was Re: [PATCH 1/2] Enabled ...)

[Bryan Ischo]

Sebastian Nowicki wrote:

[lots of good stuff]

Thanks for your excellent points.  I won't take this discussion too much 
further, because I think that it's getting to the 'beating a dead horse' 
phase, but I do appreciate the time that you and others have taken to 
let me know how I might use git better.

I do agree with you that something is inherently different in the way 
that I am trying to use git than the way that it should be optimally 
used.  I think that part of the problem is that I am used to commits 
being final, not something that you revisit and modify and coalesce 
(--squash) and rebase and what have you, so perhaps some of the 
methodologies I have become used to using need to be altered in an 
environment in which the natural way to do many things involves managing 
changes in these ways.

If I need more advice on git, I'll go to the official git project for 
help ...

Thanks,
Bryan