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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joshua Haberman <joshua@reverberate.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: visualizing Git's Git repo
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 01:39:16 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37ide3jtf.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805271957430.2958@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Mon, 26 May 2008, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> >
> > 2. as a project, why don't you rebase when merging long-running branches into
> > master?
> 
> For the kernel, there's been a lot of discussion about why I prefer people 
> to rebase vs merge (or often - *avoiding* merges entirely), see the kernel 
> mailing list, and search for merging. There was a thread (subject: 
> "[alsa-devel] HG -> GIT migration") about a week ago where I tried to 
> explain my opinions about about some of this.

You can read summary of this (I think) discussion at KernelTrap:
  http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Git_Management

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-28  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-26 20:47 visualizing Git's Git repo Joshua Haberman
2008-05-26 22:59 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-05-26 23:42   ` Joshua Haberman
2008-05-26 23:46   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-27  0:41 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-05-27 20:36 ` Joshua Haberman
2008-05-27 23:49   ` Jeff King
2008-05-28  3:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-28  8:39   ` Jakub Narebski [this message]

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