Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Benny Halevy
2008-02-12T16:50:46Z

On Feb. 12, 2008, 18:36 +0200, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
>> This is why, with the networking, we've just tossed all of the network
>> driver stuff in there too. I can rebase freely, remove changesets,
>> rework them, etc. and this causes a very low amount of pain for Jeff
>> Garzik and John Linville.
>
>
> s/very low/not low/
>
> Rebasing is always a pain, and John and I both agreed the other day that
> you do it too often.
>
> I've complained about this before, too... but figured this was just
> another thing I was getting ignored on, and so life moved on. But don't
> try to sell rebasing as "low pain".
>
> Rebasing makes the history all nice and pretty, but by totalling
> flattening the history, trashing all the commit ids (and rewriting
> associated metadata), you create obvious downstream problems.

FWIW, when I rebase branches in my tree that others depend on
I keep tags on the old heads for reference. Once the work-in-progress
is done (e.g. tree pulled upstream) the reference tags can be cleaned
up and the tree can be pruned.

Benny

>
> Rebasing is low impact only if you don't have git downstream people.
> Otherwise, you're just treating it as a useful quilt clone, really.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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