Hi, On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demar...@profusion.mobi> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Rafael Antognolli > <antogno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I know that this is not a poll, but I particularly prefer rebased > > branches/commits too. > > me too. > > Merges only make sense when there are maintainers of particular pieces > of the repository. The best example of this is the Linux Kernel. You > merge what the submaintainers send to you. They can't rebase on top of > you because otherwise they would break the history for whoever is > basing their development on their tree. > > On the other side, take projects like BlueZ, ConnMan, WebKit. There > aren't merges... and there's no lie as you are implying. People are > used to rebase before sending the features they developed. > > Also we don't need to be black or white here. Sometimes it's easier to > use merges and still don't pollute the repository. I myself sometimes > use merges in the projects I maintain, though most of the times > rebases are better.
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