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Message-ID: <4671C8B6.5010000@garzik.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:01:10 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
CC: Linas Vepstas <linas@...tin.ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 0/15] spidernet driver bug fixes
David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:14 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>> Some googling seems to show that "git pull" has a bug/feature of
>> ignoring the branch that one is working in, and pulling "master"
>> no matter what. I have no clue why; this seems broken to me.
>
> Branches are generally a PITA -- it's probably best just to avoid them
> entirely. It's not as if it's hard to create separate trees, and even
> share objects between the trees.
It makes diffing between lines of development more difficult, takes up
more overall space, less cache friendly, ...
Jeff
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