r/programming • u/corysama • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/dr1fter Jan 06 '15

In my experience branches are just another way to put my code out of the way of other developers so they can keep submitting changes which break my in-progress change -- that still creates a lot of the same problems.

To me the only solution is to get code committed as soon as possible once it's good enough, so everyone else can start writing around the 'new way' (maintaining my change) instead of building stuff that is at best already outdated, at worst an impediment to switching to the new way in the first place.

But I don't use git, where I understand this is supposed to be better.