From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Messing with the VC history Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:33:14 +0900 Message-ID: <87lhnavhz9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87k32vsm8u.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83fvdjdv8t.fsf@gnu.org> <871tp3rv07.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416180836 17216 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2014 23:33:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 00:33:49 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq9KG-0004ZA-SZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:33:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45427 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq9KG-0002bF-Fk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:33:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq9Jw-0002Ou-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:33:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq9Jp-0000iH-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:33:28 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:39098) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq9Jo-0000hY-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:33:21 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47A661C39C7; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:33:14 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2470B1A2844; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:33:14 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <871tp3rv07.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177368 Archived-At: =C3=93scar Fuentes writes: > What I'm describing is an scenario where merges are created just > because someone pushed changes since your last `pull'. Apart from > the noise on the VC history, this procedure has a recursive nature: You can't win this one, =C3=93scar. Many Emacs developers, including several frequent committers, are uninterested in learning enough about VCS to deal with these issues. Some dislike rebasing in principle or because doing it properly (as they understand it) involves running tests on all rebased commits.