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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Instead of rebasing, etc....?
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:49:46 +0200
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Hi,

> Of course then I want to push dev and move origin/dev to refer to it.
> So I delete and recreate origin/dev. =C2=A0That's essentially like
> rebasing, and all the advice says "don't do it." =C2=A0How bad is tha=
t,
> really, if it's my own development branch?

If I understand correctly, you want a non-FF push. Simply develop on
dev and `git push origin +dev:dev` to force a non-FF push. It's not
bad at all if your branch isn't public and others aren't pulling from
it.

-- Ram