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From: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [StGIT RFC PATCH 0/2] Fixing the rebase safeguard
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:41:36 +0100
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On 03/06/07, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
> This is an attempt at using a reachability test to replace the use of
> orig-base, to decide when it is safe to accept a rebase.
[...]
> - using ORIG_HEAD, but then, how do we decide when it is valid to do
>   so ?

I think using the ORIG_HEAD was the initial behaviour of StGIT. I
didn't have any problems as I am only following one tree (Linus'
mainline kernel) but other users might have different scenarios.

-- 
Catalin