Re: [PATCH RFC] Rough draft document on merging and rebasing

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 11:42:48 -0400
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Finally, I'm bit concerned about anything which states absolutes,
> because there are people who tend to be real stickler for the rules,
> and if they see something stated in absolute terms, they fail to
> understand that there are exceptions that are well understood, and in
> use for years before the existence of the document which is trying to
> codify best practices.

Hence the "there are exceptions" text at the bottom of the document :)

Anyway, I'll rework it to try to take your comments into account.  Maybe
we should consistently say "rebasing" for changing the parent commit of a
patch set, and "history modification" for the other tricks...?

Thanks for taking a look,

jon