From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:57:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738bwx254.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874mwcx3eo.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk
phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:
> Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> * Andreas Schwab <fpujno@yvahk-z68x.bet> [2014-09-12 13:47:44 +0200]:
>>> That's pretty easy if you are rebasing.
>>
>> Are you saying that rebasing changes the timestamp?!
>> I.e., I make a commit X today and tomorrow rebase (= remove X; pull from
>> upstream; reapply X) it.
>> Is X now dated today or tomorrow?
>> If the answer is "tomorrow", this looks like a bug.
>
>
> Rebasing changes history, which includes timestamps. It's why it's such
> a dangerous command, and some do argue strongly that its a bug.
And some argue strongly that spiders are bugs, but if you are planning
on getting anywhere in a discussion, they tend to contribute rather
little of use.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-12 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-12 4:36 Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 9:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 10:49 ` Gregor Zattler
2014-09-12 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 13:19 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 13:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 15:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 17:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 15:53 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 19:28 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 13:57 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 11:38 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 16:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 11:46 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-12 13:56 ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-12 15:08 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-09-12 16:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 6:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-12 7:25 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 9:34 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-12 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-12 8:34 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 8:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 11:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 11:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 12:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 13:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 15:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 16:04 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 16:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 16:28 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 16:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 20:19 ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps (was: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult) Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-09-12 20:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 21:44 ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-09-13 3:45 ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps (was: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult) Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-13 5:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-13 6:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-13 7:26 ` resolving ambiguity in action stamps Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-13 10:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-13 12:43 ` Yuri Khan
2014-09-14 7:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 10:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-14 11:03 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-14 13:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 14:06 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-14 15:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 14:21 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-14 15:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-14 15:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-14 17:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-15 0:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-13 8:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-12 14:12 ` Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Sam Steingold
2014-09-12 14:36 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 14:44 ` Yuri Khan
2014-09-12 15:24 ` Sam Steingold
2014-09-12 15:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 16:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-09-12 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-12 20:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-12 15:21 ` Sam Steingold
2014-09-12 15:34 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-12 15:51 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-12 17:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-12 17:58 ` David Caldwell
2014-09-12 19:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-12 18:01 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-09-12 19:36 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-10-28 21:11 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2014-09-12 15:30 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-12 15:57 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-09-12 17:10 ` Stefan Monnier
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