From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rebasing Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:54:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87iqannget.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264647787 6382 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2010 03:03:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 28 04:03:04 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NaKet-0003FI-Os for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:03:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48146 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaKX5-00045R-1L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:54:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaKX0-00043y-6n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:54:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaKWv-00040v-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:54:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51402 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaKWv-00040s-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:56528 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NaKWu-0007jB-7u; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:54:48 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvYEACCLYEtFpaAe/2dsb2JhbACBNNZ7hDkEilE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,357,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="54721488" Original-Received: from 69-165-160-30.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.160.30]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 27 Jan 2010 21:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1927788D6; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:54:47 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87iqannget.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:53:46 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:120538 Archived-At: > One thing that concerns me is the anti-rebasing dogma that one hears > from canonical. Does anybody know if it's just dogma, or does bzr > actually have technical problems with rebasing? AFAIK, bzr supports rebase less well than Git, both in the sense that it's a separate plugin, and in the sense that it really doesn't keep track of the ancestry pre-rebase, contrary to Git which does keep some info about it. AFAIK, there's no deep reason for that. As maintainer, I don't care if people rebase rather than merge before installing changes from their local branch to the trunk. It probably results in cleaner patches/history, so it's fine by me. Stefan