Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:30:14AM CEST, I got a letter where Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@xxxxxxxxxxx> said that... > Petr Baudis wrote: > > Another aspect of this is that Git (Linus ;) is very focused on getting > > the history right, nice and clean (though it does not _mandate_ it and > > you can just wildly do one commit after another; it just provides tools > > to easily do it). > > Yes, rebasing is very uncommon in the bzr community. We would rather > evaluate the complete change than walk through its history. (Bundles > only show the changes you made, not the changes you merged from the > mainline.) > > In an earlier form, bundles contained a patch for every revision, and > people *hated* reading them. So there's definitely a cultural > difference there. BTW, I think what describes the Git's (kernel's) stance very nicely is what I call the Al Viro's "homework problem": http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/176 If I understand you right, the bzr approach is what's described as "the dumbest kind" there? (No offense meant!) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html