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recursion

• simiones 4y ago
  What does that mean in the context of git?
  • couchand 4y ago
    There is nothing special about the main branch! This is the recipe to collaborate in git: - Pick a shared branch to work on. - Work. - If you complete within a day, push to shared branch. - If you need to hold onto it longer, make a new branch, switch to it. - (Possibly recurse.) - Complete work, rebase new branch on shared branch, push. And of course feel free to replace branch with remote/branch. It is distributed, after all, nothing special about any particular server. A worked example, to make it more concrete: - Pick the shared branch main. - Work on a feature for more than a day, so: - Create a feature branch feature/e2ee, switch to it. - Recurse, since you'll be doing database updates and I'm adding the UI. - Pick the shared branch feature/e2ee. - I create a branch git.sr.ht/~couch/new-twitter/feature/e2ee - You work and push to feature/e2ee. - I complete my work, rebase the branch, and push to feature/e2ee. - We are satisfied that we've completed the feature, rebase and push to main.
    • simiones 4y ago
      That doesn't really solve much: if both you and I rebase our personal feature branches onto master at different places, when we both try to push to the shared feature branch, we'll have a REALLY bad time - especially if we actually had to do conflict resolution.