Re: gitk screenshots of complex history

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > 
> > I just compared my own history to Linus' linux-2.6 history.
> > The kernel team can't hold a candle to this mess.
> 
> Rather on purpose, I might add. I've actually been fairly anal about 
> having people maintain clean histories, to the point where I refuse to 
> pull from trees that don't do a good enough job.

For 4 of our internal repositories I've taken that policy up now
myself, and nobody is allowed to create releases from them except me.
This has helped.  A lot.  So does sensible use of `git rebase -i`.
You and Junio have really sold me on the value of having someone
play a very strict gatekeeper role.  I get better work product from
my coworkers this way too.  They know someone else is looking at
what they are doing and try harder.

But it doesn't help the really old history, nor does it help
the repository these images came from.  I don't own/control that
development.  I just provide git help as much as I can.

-- 
Shawn.