Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Why aren't you using git-flow?

jeffkreeftmeijer.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 55 posts

Re: Why aren't you using git-flow?

#11

Post by bobbywilson0 »

KirinDave wrote: post #9

Git flow is a great tool as a starter to teach people what a reasonable git workflow is. Once you understand got better, you may find it a bit constraining. Personally, I don't see why you shouldn't work out of master and make release tags. The develop branch seems like an extra step that is unnecessary. But I suppose if your team is quite large it makes sense. EDIT: Please not I am not suggesting that you not do fea…

Master exists as a pristine releasable code base. Develop is the main branch for working on things, and branching usually happens from there. Having master and develop lets you keep developing on your project while having a frozen deployable branch master in this case.

Re: Why aren't you using git-flow?

#12

Post by kevinold »

Has anyone used git-flow with an existing repo? It seems like existing branches could just be renamed from "myfeature" to "feature/myfeature", etc. but I wonder if others have been down this road and have run into issues.

Re: Why aren't you using git-flow?

#14

Post by klochner »

brown9-2 wrote: post #10
KirinDave wrote: post #9

Git flow is a great tool as a starter to teach people what a reasonable git workflow is. Once you understand got better, you may find it a bit constraining. Personally, I don't see why you shouldn't work out of master and make release tags. The develop branch seems like an extra step that is unnecessary. But I suppose if your team is quite large it makes sense. EDIT: Please not I am not suggesting that you not do fea…

If you develop directly in master, then how can you go back and fix a severe bug in the version of the code that is in your production site without having to revert all the in-progress development changes or risk introducing them into the bugfix? I believe this is the intent of not working in master. If you tag each release, does git allow you to checkout by that tag and then start making commits to it / make a new b…

I develop in master sometimes, but only check in small edits that are pushed immediately.

If my edits grow to the point that I need to write tests or push to staging, I just checkout a feature branch before committing.

Re: Why aren't you using git-flow?

#15

Post by drothlis »

brown9-2 wrote: post #10
KirinDave wrote: post #9

Git flow is a great tool as a starter to teach people what a reasonable git workflow is. Once you understand got better, you may find it a bit constraining. Personally, I don't see why you shouldn't work out of master and make release tags. The develop branch seems like an extra step that is unnecessary. But I suppose if your team is quite large it makes sense. EDIT: Please not I am not suggesting that you not do fea…

If you develop directly in master, then how can you go back and fix a severe bug in the version of the code that is in your production site without having to revert all the in-progress development changes or risk introducing them into the bugfix? I believe this is the intent of not working in master. If you tag each release, does git allow you to checkout by that tag and then start making commits to it / make a new b…

Yes, you can create a new branch from any tag (or indeed any commit).

Re: Why aren't you using git-flow?

#16

Post by JulianMorrison »

brown9-2 wrote: post #10
KirinDave wrote: post #9

Git flow is a great tool as a starter to teach people what a reasonable git workflow is. Once you understand got better, you may find it a bit constraining. Personally, I don't see why you shouldn't work out of master and make release tags. The develop branch seems like an extra step that is unnecessary. But I suppose if your team is quite large it makes sense. EDIT: Please not I am not suggesting that you not do fea…

If you develop directly in master, then how can you go back and fix a severe bug in the version of the code that is in your production site without having to revert all the in-progress development changes or risk introducing them into the bugfix? I believe this is the intent of not working in master. If you tag each release, does git allow you to checkout by that tag and then start making commits to it / make a new b…

It's not hard (not claiming it's sensible, but still). Do gitk --all, walk back to the tag, right click and create a new branch. This is even possible if there was no tag (just a recognizable revision), or if you want to create a tag retroactively.

Re: Why aren't you using git-flow?

#17

Post by bobbywilson0 »

klochner wrote: post #14
brown9-2 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you develop directly in master, then how can you go back and fix a severe bug in the version of the code that is in your production site without having to revert all the in-progress development changes or risk introducing them into the bugfix? I believe this is the intent of not working in master. If you tag each release, does git allow you to checkout by that tag and then start making commits to it / make a new b…

I develop in master sometimes, but only check in small edits that are pushed immediately. If my edits grow to the point that I need to write tests or push to staging, I just checkout a feature branch before committing.

If you are using git-flow, this should probably be done in a hotfix branch, so that when you are done, finishing your hotfix merges directly to master and develop. Without a hotfix you would have to manually merge master back into develop.

Re: Why aren't you using git-flow?

#18

Post by avar »

grandalf wrote: post #8

This is interesting. Does anyone know if it introduces any other metadata or concepts that are annoying if one reverts back to plain git?

It just appears to be a fancy-pants way of creating branches for you. Plenty of projects (e.g. Git itself) use a similar development model without using git-flow.

Re: Why aren't you using git-flow?

#19

Post by lily123 »

Happy shopping, happy with life, all in here,Please click: HtTp://WwW.wOwCoOl.OrG Dear Customer, How are you, There are many good products Please click the following URL http://wowcool.org/productlist.asp?id=s55 【T-shirt】

http://wowcool.org/productlist.asp?id=s13 【 MTB】

http://wowcool.org/productlist.asp?id=n49 【Jordan 2010】

http://wowcool.org/productlist.asp?id=s44 【Watch】

http://wowcool.org/productlist.asp?id=s46 【Jewerly】

http://wowcool.org/productlist.asp?id=s45 【Sunglass】

http://wowcool.org/productlist.asp?id=s60 【Jean】

http://wowcool.org/productlist.asp?id=s53 【handbags】

http://wowcool.org/productlist.asp?id=s68 【Jacket】 The website wholesale for many kinds of fashion shoes, like the nike,jordan,prada,adidas, also including the jeans,shirts,bags,hat and the decorations. All the products are free shipping, and the the price is competitive, and also can accept paypal payment.,after the payment, can ship within short time hTtP://wWw.WoWcOoL.oRg

Post reply on HN