On Mar 21, 2011, at 08:58 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: >On 21.03.2011 20:09, s...@pobox.com wrote: >> >> Daniel> If every developer's intermediate commits make it into the main >> Daniel> repository, it's hard to go back to an older revision to test >> Daniel> something, because many of the older revisions will be broken in >> Daniel> some way. >> >> This is what I discovered with my trivial doc patch last week. I was quite >> surprised to see all my local checkins turn up on the python-checkins >> mailing list. Is there not some way to automatically collapse a series of >> local commits into one large commit when you do the push? > >There is, but this is again "changing history", with all the possible >benefits and caveats that have been shown in this thread.
I think Ben Finney hit the nail on the head here. -Barry
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