On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 08:59:40AM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: > In all three cases you're free to either keep or throw away the old patchset. Yes, but to the same degree e.g. with StGIT I'm free to keep the head of the old patch series. That does not mean the operation *preserves* the history, only that the history is still around somewhere in the repository, however it won't be around in other incarnations of the repository and it will not be connected in any way to the current version of the patchset. Yes, if you are lucky you can figure out the name of the previous version, but it's like starting development of each new kernel version by a clean import of the sources. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis http://pasky.or.cz/ | "Ars longa, vita brevis." -- Hippocrates -- 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