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Re: Bazaar migration status?
From: |
Ken Raeburn |
Subject: |
Re: Bazaar migration status? |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:34:15 -0400 |
On Jul 22, 2009, at 23:49, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
True, you will see "don't ever rebase" a lot from git-phobes. It
should be considered to be a litmus test for git-phobia, not as
reflecting VCS reality.
I may have overstated it a little, but the general recommendation is
that it's a bad idea and should be avoided if possible. For example,
"git help rebase" tells me so:
Rebasing (or any other form of rewriting) a branch that others
have based
work on is a bad idea: anyone downstream of it is forced to
manually fix
their history. This section explains how to do the fix from the
downstream's point of view. The real fix, however, would be to
avoid
rebasing the upstream in the first place.
This sort of ripple effect requiring manual intervention for everyone
downstream seems... rude.
In fact, rebasing is such an important operation that *all* of the
dVCSes have been forced by user demand to provide it,
I'd believe it, and certainly its use in private branches makes sense
to me. My experience with dVCSes is minimal so far, but I can imagine
a case where some sort of upstream repository change or rebuild is
absolutely necessary and it's impossible to keep the content the
same. In our case, though, it seems to be that we *do* want the
content to be the same, and all the history info... but we're going to
have a complete new version history anyways, because it's how the
tools work today.
Ken
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, (continued)
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/07/20
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Miles Bader, 2009/07/20
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/07/20
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Andreas Schwab, 2009/07/21
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Ken Raeburn, 2009/07/21
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, David Reitter, 2009/07/22
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Andreas Schwab, 2009/07/22
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Ken Raeburn, 2009/07/22
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/07/22
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Miles Bader, 2009/07/23
- Re: Bazaar migration status?,
Ken Raeburn <=
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/07/23
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Ken Raeburn, 2009/07/23
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/07/23
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Ken Raeburn, 2009/07/24
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/07/24
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Andreas Schwab, 2009/07/23
- Re: Bazaar migration status?, Christian Faulhammer, 2009/07/20