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bennoleslie

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    Comment #3068807

    Sorry, that did come across as a bit defensive. However, I think if you read the whole article carefully it explains that after doing a git pull, and git refusing to merge because …

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    Comment #3061644

    I'm not sure where you get the idea that I'm not committing early? If it was the comment saying '3 days of straight hacking' then I apologise for my prose being unclear. I was only…

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    Comment #3061625

    Yeah, HFS+ is a nasty beast. In this case not the culprit, firstly because the first thing I do when getting a new MacBook is reformatting as case-sensitive, and secondly, because …

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    Comment #3061617

    In this case the git pull man page is relatively clear that: "If any of the remote changes overlap with local uncommitted changes, the merge will be automatically cancelled and the…

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    Comment #3061610

    Exactly, in fact it normally does. git pull is actually really useful for enforcing this most of the time. If you inadvertently do a 'git pull' before doing a commit, and you have …

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    Comment #3061603

    They were obviously saved. I was simply pulling before committing, which is a supported work flow of the tool. I don't think I ever said I went days without committing.

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    Comment #3061600

    Sure, I would agree with that, but in this case I already knew what the one commit I was pulling did. And the fetch,diff, merge wouldn't have helped. The file that was destroyed wa…

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    Comment #3061593

    Just to point out that fetch + merge would have caused the same problem. In this case it was a small team, with advance knowledge of what the commit was, so no need to inspect. But…

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    Comment #3061574

    No, you don't interpret correctly. It was not 3 days of uncommitted changes, it was committing some changes after hacking for three days. Completely different thing. The 3 days was…

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    Comment #2999490

    http://agilezen.com/ is very close, and actually has a bunch of other useful features too. Although I've got to say that trello is a lot slicker than agilezen.

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    Comment #2897550

    The rental market in the inner suburbs of Sydney is pretty expensive. It certainly helps to have employment and real estate agents will often ask for some kind of employment refere…

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    Comment #2640583

    The way in which the failed product was handled is impressive, but I'm left wondering if there are any more details on the approach that failed? Sharing why a given approach doesn'…