On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 01:08:37PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > 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...? Those names sound good to me. Thanks!! - Ted
