Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

[Benny Halevy]

On Feb. 12, 2008, 18:36 +0200, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
>> This is why, with the networking, we've just tossed all of the network
>> driver stuff in there too.  I can rebase freely, remove changesets,
>> rework them, etc. and this causes a very low amount of pain for Jeff
>> Garzik and John Linville.
> 
> 
> s/very low/not low/
> 
> Rebasing is always a pain, and John and I both agreed the other day that 
> you do it too often.
> 
> I've complained about this before, too...  but figured this was just 
> another thing I was getting ignored on, and so life moved on.  But don't 
> try to sell rebasing as "low pain".
> 
> Rebasing makes the history all nice and pretty, but by totalling 
> flattening the history, trashing all the commit ids (and rewriting 
> associated metadata), you create obvious downstream problems.

FWIW, when I rebase branches in my tree that others depend on
I keep tags on the old heads for reference.  Once the work-in-progress
is done (e.g. tree pulled upstream) the reference tags can be cleaned
up and the tree can be pruned.

Benny

> 
> Rebasing is  low impact only if you don't have git downstream people. 
> Otherwise, you're just treating it as a useful quilt clone, really.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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