Today versus Yesterday
Have you ever had one of those days where everything you tried to do didn’t work? Or went wrong? Yesterday was that day for me. I had what was probably one of the worst days I’ve had yet this year. I woke up with a headache. I get to work and started the morning off with a 3 hour troubleshooting task that should have taken about 15-20 minutes, moving on to realize I didn’t do my homework that was due by 5:00 that evening, I then found out I left my allergy pill bottle at home so I couldn’t call in a new prescription, and ended the day with a broken, torn apart application that I couldn’t commit. I would have stayed until I fixed it, but the person I carpool with had to leave by 4:30, so I had no choice but to leave that mess for the next morning (I hate leaving something open-ended like that). What a day.
But today I woke up with a clear head, which aided me in getting about 2 days worth of work done by noon (including 5 solid commits), and my teacher let me turn in my assignment a day late. Everything seems to be going smooth again, which is how I like it.
Chris Wednesday, 28 Feb, 2007 Posted at 05:49AM
Leaving uncommitted code makes me very uneasy. It also makes me think the worst stuff will happen (have my laptop stolen, hard drive crash, etc.). It’s also one of the reasons I like to commit often, because I feel like I’m putting everything into a vault where I “know” it will be safe. I say “know” because the repository is sitting on a machine that could also suffer from a hard drive crash, etc. But I try not to think about that :-p