From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes? Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:12:15 +0900 Message-ID: <871vibu3ps.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87fx6sm8yl.fsf@telefonica.net> <873a2slzrr.fsf@telefonica.net> <83ws03db8v.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262236369 20379 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2009 05:12:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:12:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 31 06:12:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NQDKy-0000NA-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:12:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQDKy-0000pJ-Vi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQDKt-0000os-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:12:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQDKo-0000o0-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:12:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60721 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQDKn-0000nx-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:12:29 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:55534) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQDKf-0004LU-Vj; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:12:22 -0500 Original-Received: from 218.231.177.74.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.177.74] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1NQDKc-0002tf-8L; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:12:18 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A72BEDF8A; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:12:15 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:36:30 +0100") Original-Lines: 23 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119111 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: >> Except that most experts on bzr I've read say rebasing is the wrong >> way to go[1]. > > Personally, and with all due respect, I don't consider this: "There > are many theoretical objections to rebasing, and I won=E2=80=99t rehash t= hem > here. There=E2=80=99s general consensus that rebasing is sort of icky." a= s a > sort of expert opinion, just biased. People used to git's rebase find > it extremely useful. Yup. Rebasing rocks, especially interactive rebasing. To be honest, a huge amount of bzr docs and commentary seems to be essentially bzr apologia trying to compensate for technical failings in bzr by saying "ok, so bzr doesn't do that as well as the competition, but you didn't really want to do that anyway... trust us..." -Miles --=20 People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. -- Donald Knuth