What if the shared place is the place where you run a bunch of CI? Then you push your work early to a branch to see the results, fix them etc.
What if the shared place is the place where you run a bunch of CI? Then you push your work early to a branch to see the results, fix them etc.
You can do whatever you want with stuff nobody else looks at. I do too.
I meant "shared place" as an open review request or a shared branch rather than shared underlying infrastructure. Shared by people's minds.
You can always force-push a cleaned up version of your branch when you are ready for review, or start a new one and delete the WIP one.
You can, but instead you can also just squash merge in one click. And avoid that people merge there dozens of fixes if you allow anything but squash merge.
I hate (and fear) force-pushing and "cleaning up" git history as much as other people dislike squash-merging =)
It just feels wrong to force push, destroying stuff that used to be there.
And I don't have the time or energy to bisect through my shitty PR commits and combine them into something clean looking - I can just squash instead.
Nothing is destroyed by a force push. It just overwrites a single pointer, and even keeps its old value in reflog.
Things that aren't referenced by anything anymore will eventually get garbage collected and actually destroyed, but you can just keep a reference somewhere to prevent that from happening if you need. Or even disable garbage collection completely.
Looks like people's fears about git come just from not knowing what it does.
You can't use the remote reflog to revert what you force pushed, can you? But I agree that having your local reflog means you're never totally lost. I still just make a branch before major edits so I can go back.