Re: Question about your git habits

On Feb 22 2008 18:37, Chase Venters wrote:

I've been making myself more familiar with git lately and I'm curious what 
habits others have adopted. (I know there are a few documents in circulation 
that deal with using git to work on the kernel but I don't think this has 
been specifically covered).

My question is: If you're working on multiple things at once,

Impossible; Humans only have one core with only seven registers --
according to CodingStyle chapter 6 paragraph 4.

do you tend to clone the entire repository repeatedly into a series
of separate working directories

Too time consuming on consumer drives with projects the size of Linux.

and do your work there, then pull
that work (possibly comprising a series of "temporary" commits) back
into a separate local master respository with --squash, either into
"master" or into a branch containing the new feature?

No, just commit the current unfinished work to a new branch and deal
with it later (cherry-pick, rebase, reset --soft, commit --amend -i,
you name it). Or if all else fails, use git-stash.

You do not have to push these temporary branches at all, so it is
much nicer than svn. (Once all the work is done and cleanly in
master, you can kill off all branches without having a record
of their previous existence.)

Or perhaps you create a temporary topical branch for each thing you
are working on, and commit arbitrary changes then checkout another
branch when you need to change gears, finally --squashing the
intermediate commits when a particular piece of work is done?

if I don't collect arbitrary changes, I don't need squashing
(see reset --soft/amend above)