Re^5: Reading Someone's Program

[Voronich]

heh. My comment was more about the "compiling is unit testing" philosophy. Plus I've become a bit of a TDD crack monkey.

Though it reminds me of something that's come up for me a few times. I've lately been finding myself wanting to have a local subordinate source control repository (more like a sub-branch.) That way intermediate nonfunctional code versions would be checked in at save time, but not committed to the real branch.

I'm not at all convinced it's not a wrongheaded thought. But I'm frequently finding myself wanting to roll back micro-changes that weren't solid enough to check in to the primary SCM system.

[eclpmb]

That pretty much is how Distributed Version Control works, you have your own repository to check things into, and when it's ready for wider exposure you push your changeset to the upstream change set.

[John M. Dlugosz]

For sure. I've become a fan of git and several people at my last $dayjob have continued using it for that purpose even after some other SCM was introduced by $boss.

I think it works great as a fancy personal "undo" and log for minute-by-minute changes. You can manipulate deltas using it, and find more uses as a general purpose tool than just a repository.

It's trivial to start filing stuff in it: just git init in that directory.

Oh, Perl itself has moved to git.