On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 11:42:48 -0400 "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Finally, I'm bit concerned about anything which states absolutes, > because there are people who tend to be real stickler for the rules, > and if they see something stated in absolute terms, they fail to > understand that there are exceptions that are well understood, and in > use for years before the existence of the document which is trying to > codify best practices. Hence the "there are exceptions" text at the bottom of the document :) Anyway, I'll rework it to try to take your comments into account. Maybe we should consistently say "rebasing" for changing the parent commit of a patch set, and "history modification" for the other tricks...? Thanks for taking a look, jon
