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prodigal_erik on May 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fossil Versus Git

Git has many commands which allow fine-grained manipulation of the staging area; stashes are a crude afterthought in comparison. The problem is that highly encouraged workflows like "git add --patch" inevitably lead to toxic commits which were never tested because they never truly existed in the workspace.

hammerdr on May 8, 2011 [–]

Commits aren't dangerous until you push them. You can very easily rebase out a committed patch after you've tested it.

etherealG on May 8, 2011 | [–]

with great power comes great responsibility :)

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