Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Of course it is possible! I even pointed to a method! > > The _point_ was that we do not want to recommend it. And giving prominent > support for it, such as introducing a command line parameter, _would_ > have the effect of recommending it. The world is no black and white, but here are some guidelines to think about this issue: - We need to be able to lie when we are importing from a foreign SCM. We want to get identical import if two different people imported from exactly the same foreign history at two different times. Obviously recording the person as the committer who happened to run the import does not work here. - When we are mechanically filtering a history (e.g. filter-branch --subdirectory-filter), the point of the rewrite is not about reorganizing the commits but tidying up the history. We would most likely want to keep the committer here, too. - We encourage private history to be tidied up before publishing by giving flexible ways to cherry-pick and rebase. On the other hand, we very strongly discourage rebasing other people's commits. If you are rebasing your own commits, there is no need to lie. -- 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
