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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:29:56 -0500 (EST)
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> I do find that trying to work on top of a constantly rebased branch is
> annoying no matter how I do it.  So I sometimes wonder if we shouldn't
> instead be finding ways to avoid the practice.

I don't think it can't be avoided in many cases.  Some stuff gets 
rebased because it has to be refined before it is merged in a more 
stable and more "official" repository.  Working on top of a rebased 
branch could be much easier if there was a dedicated command to perform 
the local rebase of one's work after a fetch, just like the pull command 
does a merge after a fetch, at which point both work flows would be 
almost equivalent wrt ease of use.


Nicolas