Bookmarks usage survey

[Martin Geisler]

Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Steve,
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Stephen Lee <sphen.lee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would like to get a feel for how many people are using bookmarks,
>> and how they use them.
>>
>> 1) Do you use bookmarks? How do you use them/what does your workflow look like?
>>
>
> Yes, I do.  I mostly use them locally, as I have found the pollution
> of bookmarks across repos to be somewhat annoying.

I agree completely -- this is also the major problem I saw when we tried
to use bookmarks for real in my previous job.

Being unable to delete them in a coordinated fashion makes them more of
a nuisance than a help. I believe this would quickly become a #1
priority if bookmarks were used in main or crew, but alas... :)

I've been using Git daily since December and the namespace it uses helps
a lot here. Your 'issue-123' bookmark will be my 'upstream/issue-123'
bookmark and I don't necessarily have to create a issue-123 at all.
Because there is a distinction between local and remote bookmarks, I can
delete the local bookmark and wont be bothered by the remote. I can also
ask to have my remote bookmarks pruned to match the real bookmarks
present in the remote repository.

-- 
Martin Geisler

http://google.com/+MartinGeisler
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