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copied!<p>Do you really need to check out <strong>ANY</strong> old revision and expect it to build?</p> <p>I agree with you that you should be able to expect that the tip will always build.<br> This can be easily achieved, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7518723/how-do-we-manage-granular-changesets-in-the-central-shared-repository/7545143#7545143">like Lazy Badger already said</a>, by some kind of "don't push unfinished work to the main repo" policy / mutual agreement.</p> <p>Concerning older revisions: </p> <ul> <li>if you want to build older official releases of your software again (like, you're at version 1.6 now and want to make an v1.2 executable), you can expect the <code>1.2</code> tag to build as well if everybody always sticked to the "don't push unfinished work" policy.</li> <li>if you want to take <strong>ANY</strong> revision and build it...well, do you really need this? Any bugs in previous versions will probably refer to official releases (see the "<code>1.2</code> tag" stuff above), and not to something in between.</li> <li>if you <strong>really</strong> need a buildable version from in between the official releases (for whatever reason), you'll have to look at the commit messages and find the commit that says <code>feature 'foo' finished</code> (and not the one that says <code>started implementation of feature 'foo'</code>).<br> Yes, this requires a bit of thinking / common sense, but I can't imagine that you will need this really often.</li> </ul>

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