Re: Git Vs. Svn for a project which *must* distribute binaries too.

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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:45:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'd like to point out some more upsides and downsides of "git rebase".
> 
> Downsides:
> 
>  - you're rewriting history, so you MUST NOT have made your pre-rebase 
>    changes available publicly anywhere else (or you are in a world of pain 
>    with duplicate history and tons of confusion)

Wouldn't it be possible to register the rebase somewhere (weak parent?
some kind of note not influencing the sha1 ?) that pull/merge could
follow?  Rebases and cherry-picking are a special kind of merge, so
maybe it can be handled like one where it counts...

  OG.
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