Re: Backing out port update that may have broken VirtualBox

On Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:52:09 -0700
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks! Never thought of branching.

	Many VC systems make a big deal out of branching and need to do a
lot of work to make it happen - which makes branching something you don't
tend to do or think of.

	Git breaks the mould in that respect, creating a branch is
ridiculously cheap so experienced git users create branches at the drop of
a hat. 

	In a work environment it is common to create a branch for every
individual piece of work - bug fix, feature, cleanup ... and if there are
multiple release branches backporting is done by creating a branch off each
release branch for each change being backported and cherry-picking the
original commit to the branch - I'd hate to use something with expensive
branches now. 

	The only reason to bother cleaning up the dead ones is to get
the noise out of the branch list for your own sanity, git can cope with
silly numbers of them - this matters enough that at work I have a cron job
for the purpose.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith
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