From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:36:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] push: teach push to be quiet if local ref is strict subset of remote ref
Message-ID: <0A8A6A99-4C8B-4056-9068-DA54B69B08B5@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <47298BD7.2000902@op5.se>


On Nov 1, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> (actually, shared repository people seem to
>> prefer "fetch + rebase" over "pull" which is "fetch + merge").
>
> That's definitely true. The number of useless merge-commits we
> have in our repos is annoying, and has twice made bisect a bit
> troublesome for no good reason.

Can you describe a bit more what's "annoying" about them?
Is it the visualization? Or are there more problems; like
the trouble with bisect?

I'm trying to estimate if it's worth teaching _all_
developers rebase or if we should just live with the "useless"
merge-commits.

	Steffen