Re: Managing multiple branches in git

Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> Well, it sounds about perfect for my use case too (which is
>> approximately the same as Tom's), but the description makes it sound
>> unsupported. �It doesn't work on Windows which doesn't bother me
>> personally but may be a showstopper more generally.

> It's not a showstopper for me. Can't speak for Magnus, Andrew or
> anyone else working on Windows though.

Seems like we'd want all committers to be using a similar work-flow
for back-patching, else we're going to have random variations in what
patch sets look like in the history.

I think the appropriate question is why doesn't it work on Windows,
and is that fixable?  Without having looked, I'm guessing the issue
is that it depends on hardlinks or symlinks --- and we know those are
available, as long as you're using recent Windows with NTFS.  Which
does not sound like an unreasonable baseline requirement for someone
committing from Windows.
        regards, tom lane