From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: gitk screenshots of complex history Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:29:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20070727052934.GH20052@spearce.org> References: <20070727041300.GD20052@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 27 07:29:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IEIOU-0001VG-QZ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:29:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753217AbXG0F3j (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:29:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753074AbXG0F3j (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:29:39 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:53252 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751523AbXG0F3j (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:29:39 -0400 Received: from [74.70.48.173] (helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IEIOO-0006dr-D0; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:29:36 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 60E7F20FBAE; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:29:35 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds 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.