On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 06:25:00PM -0500, Andy Walls wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 15:59 +0100, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to start a discussion which ideally results in either > > changing the SCM of v4l-dvb to git _or_ leaving everything as it is today > > with mercurial. > > > > > I'm waiting for comments. > > I only have one requirement: reduce bandwidth usage between the server > and my home. > > The less I have to clone out 65 M of history to start a new series of > patches the better. I suppose that would include a rebase... no, it would not. in case you feel better to clone something before a rebase, you can clone it locally. rebasing is an easily abused practice which destroys the history of a branch and puts in trouble the followers of that branch. published branch which is often rebased is usually frown upon. git is a branch-merge-branch-throw-away-branch-branch-merge-... tool. commit massaging is another tempting practice, it's so easy to produce a cleaned up history of your branch. writing code in 2D is already pretty difficult, God save us from writing code in 3D. cheers, Domenico -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
