Whole tree up to date before committing

[Nicholas Allen]

> I'm on Óscar's side here.  We commit directly on trunk _all_ _the_
> _time_, because most of our changes are small stuff that happens in
> one commit.  Doing those in a separate branch and merging is totally
> pointless overhead, and a policy demanding that would be a great way
> to get myself lynched.
>
>   
Well why not have an unstable trunk where developers can work as you
suggest and a stable one where everything passes all tests? Just because
you use a gatekeeper doesn't mean that's the only workflow that you
should use. It's just a workflow that can guarantee a certain level of
quality assurance - which I assumed was desired. If you're not
interested in that for certain branches then you don't need to use it
and can just commit there directly.

Nick