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Is it ever OK to commit non-working code?

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By Sean McSomething, Michael Durrant
| programmers.stackexchange.com
One of the branching philosophies (section Developing Branching Strategy and Codeline Policy in Advanced SCM Branching Strategies - also read Perforce Best practices, its a pdf but goes into some other details) is that you branch on incompatabile policy. A codeline policy specifies the fair use and permissible check-ins for the codeline, and is the essential user’s manual for codeline SCM.
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Is it a acceptable approach to put try catch wherever null pointer exception occurs?

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By Christoffer Hammarström, Sean McSomething
| programmers.stackexchange.com
If you're using third party code that is returning , it's much better to check the return value. Edit: Java 8 is out! This should now be A is insidious and misleading, because it means you have an error somewhere else, where a variable was set to without you expecting it to be. I repeat, the bug isn't where the was thrown, the bug is earlier in your code, where a variable was set to without you expecting it to be. Catching the means you're hiding or excusing the actual bug.
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