After being on a new project for a few months, Beavis is told he has to fix a bug in the old system. Now, both codebases are stored using Git source control, but they are located on different servers. Other than the initial connection, accessing them is the same, so if you are using the command line, the commands are exactly the same.
Beavis, a Senior Developer states that he has the code checked out from months ago, but it will be now out of date, so he needs to get the latest changes. He then says “do I need to create a new branch to get the latest code? And if so, do I create it on the server and sync it down, or create it locally and sync up?”
Beavis, it’s the same process you have been doing for the last few months. Sync to get the latest changes, then create a new local branch for your bug fix to go in.
In the end, I think he asked another developer who doesn’t understand Git very well and Beavis ends up cloning another copy of the code.
Facepalm.
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