[GRLUG] Git 'philosophy'

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:03 -0500, Matt Michielsen wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:18, "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> > Does anyone use Git in a consulting environment? Here is the  
> > situation:

Ha, I'd be willing to use git for sufficient amounts of money.
Excessive complexity is the hallmark of consultant work after all.

> >> I work from two or three different machines, and need to maintain a
> > repository for my 'work'
> >> There are other possible developers, so I have already setup a  
> >> 'master'
> > repository at the client.
> > I had originally thought that having my OWN 'working' repository would
> > allow me to share environments between office, laptop, & netbook,  
> > but git
> > does not seem to like two repositories (at least I can't get it  
> > working).
> > So, the question - is maintiaing a 'work' repository and a 'master'
> > respository a valid topology?
> That sounds like a great idea. I personally use mercurial. You'll want  
> to start from the same repository though, then just push and pull  
> between the two.

Ditto, +1 Mercurial (Hg)