Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:51:30PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On 7/16/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  You can skip merges with "git log --no-merges", just in case you didn't
> >  know.
> 
> Perhaps this is mostly a user education or documentation issue.  I
> know about --no-merges, but it's unclear that this is really a safe
> thing to use, particularly if some of your merges have conflicts.
> Leaving them out leaves out an important part of history.  Do you use
> this option yourself?

Whereas if you rebase, not only you don't show the conflicts resolution,
you didn't even _store_ it in the first place. That isn't much of an
improvement. :-) (This is the main reason why I prefer to avoid rebase
unless absolutely necessary for the workflow.)

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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