Source code rottens ?

Yes, I know. Old habits die hard.

I'm always been used to do frequent commits and merges with Subversion. Many commits per day, with small, isolated changes of source code.

I like it. It seems that the project is continuously reshuffled. Alive.

Therefore, now that in the project I'm working on the standard is to commit rarely with big portions of changes, I have always the impression that my changes 'rotten' until they are out of the project trunk.

Yes, I can update my local folder frequently, but I know it is not the same thing. When I commit a change, I'm also putting the changes under the hands of the other developers. They will look at it, they will compile it, they will run it together with their own changes.

Until my brand new code is in local, it is isolated from the Real World. It doesn't join the battle. It lives in a small, separated suburb.

And rottens.