On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 21:24 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: [ . . . ] > Ulrick mentioned that history rewriting is "encouraged under some particular > circumstances". What circumstances would those be?
Rebasing/rewriting of private, never published repositories is absolutely fine, and is encouraged for preparing a repository for creation of changesets/patches where it is not possible to simply publish the repository and issue a pull request. In all other circumstances rebasing/rewriting is discouraged. Well actually as close to being banned as it is possible to get. Rebasing/rewriting an already published repository is a catastrophic event that ruins relationships with clones (due to the history rewriting!). Git repositories used as writing clients to Subversion repositories (using git-svn) have to do rebasing as an integral part of the writing to the Subversion repository. This means they have to be personal clients only. Read-only is a way of bridging of course since there is no rebasing. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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