A recent post that was highly ranked on Hacker News complained about common git workflows causing him serious pain. While I won’t get into the merit of his user experience complaints, I do want to talk about his specific use-case and how I personally work with it in git.

I listened to Linus today indicate how branching is vital, centralization is evil and innovation should not be walled nor restricted and trust is a social graph percolation problem...

The purpose of TracHacks is to provide free Subversion hosting for community created Trac hacks. TracHacks uses the excellent TagsPlugin, which adds basic categorisation to Trac. All hacks are tagged with one or more of the available tags.

Many developers are uneasy about branching and merging, even those who consider source control essential. It can be a very complicated process, but it doesn't have to be, and it is a very powerful way to manage development. Here's how to get started with