[petsc-dev] close ts-fixes branch?

[Kai Germaschewski]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

I do not understand what distinction is being made here. Doing a clone is
> cleaner than doing a branch, and I see
> no real benefit from the branch. Is there any?
>

That was basically my point, clone and branches are conceptually doing the
same thing, only difference being named vs unnamed. However, you guys
convinced me that the permanent clutter from named branches is a good reason
to not use them, so I won't in the future.

(By the way, one advantage of in-repo branches is that you don't have to
keep a number of trees around, as you can easily switch in-tree. Of course
that's more useful if one has makefiles which actually only does necessary
recompiles..)

Thanks for pointing out the rebase extension, I didn't know that.

--Kai




>
>
>> Anyway, this probably shouldn't lead to a git vs hg discussion, but I've
>> used mercurial as my main tool for various things for quite a while, and
>> recently learned more about git, and for me it solves a lot of the annoying
>> little things I kept running into with hg. Including having a gui that let's
>> you go through changes before commiting them, and separating them, so you
>> don't need to do "can't remember what the heck I changed -- I wish mercurial
>> had a frontend like bk" commits. (By the way, even for hg there's "hg diff"
>> and "hg diff | diffstat" which helps...) I used to work on the linux kernel
>> with bk, so it's probably no surprise that git seems to support the kind of
>> workflow I'm used to, though...
>>
>
> hg qct
>
>    Matt
>
>
>> --Kai
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kai Germaschewski
>> Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics / Space Science Center
>> University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
>> office: Morse Hall 245F
>> phone:  +1-603-862-2912
>> fax: +1-603-862-2771
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
>



-- 
Kai Germaschewski
Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics / Space Science Center
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
office: Morse Hall 245F
phone:  +1-603-862-2912
fax: +1-603-862-2771
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