[plt-dev] Look before you leap

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri May 21 14:28:01 EDT 2010

On May 21, Carl Eastlund wrote:
> Please, PLEASE, everyone who writes to our git repository: always
> run 'git status' before you commit anything.  Both in svn and git,
> we've had problems ranging from small annoyances to major bugs
> coming from people committing when they didn't know what the version
> control software thought was "the change".  If you run 'git status'
> first, you'll know you haven't forgotten to include a file, restore
> a change you meant to back out of, and so on.  Don't just 'git
> commit' because it happens to work for you right then -- make sure
> you are committing everything that makes it work!
> 
> From all of the rest of us who read your changes, thanks in advance!

And read the text I wrote: http://tmp.barzilay.org/git.txt  Be prepared
for a quiz later this week.

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