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Re: nicer frontend to get rebased tree?

From
AKAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date
Aug 23, 2008, 16:53 UTC
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<20080823165350.GY23334@one.firstfloor.org>
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<200808231121.41694.jnareb@gmail.com>
> If you are thinking about 'linux-next', it is exception rather than
> the rule.

No you're wrong. The majority of Linux trees I have to deal with do it now and then. And I must say I also understand why they want it -- they want a clean history on top of Linus' tree. Otherwise there is no chance to find the own changes again after a few thousands other merges.

> First, there isn't just _one_ way to deal with non fast-forward 
> (rebased) branch; there are many possible workflow wrt rebasing.

I don't doubt there are a million ways to do it somehow in all kinds of convoluted ways. And that's exactly the problem.

The only thing I asked for was that were as a simple standard way that is actually documented in the main documentation and the tutorials and doesn't require lots of strange commands.

Not more not less. Right now that's not there as I know from my own experience.

Maybe for you people who spend days thinking about git and hacking it these ways are all obvious, but for someone like me who just wants to use the tool it's definitely not easy to do currently.

Anyways I'll shut up on this now because it sounds like you people are not interested in improving the tool for non power users. 

-Andi
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Message 33 of 42 in “nicer frontend to get rebased tree?”
  1. Andi KleenAug 22, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsAug 22, 2008
  3. Andi KleenAug 22, 2008
  4. Linus TorvaldsAug 22, 2008
  5. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 22, 2008
  6. Linus TorvaldsAug 22, 2008
  7. Björn SteinbrinkAug 22, 2008
  8. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 22, 2008
  9. Linus TorvaldsAug 22, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 22, 2008
  11. Andi KleenAug 23, 2008
  12. Paolo BonziniAug 23, 2008
  13. Andi KleenAug 23, 2008
  14. Paolo BonziniAug 23, 2008
  15. Linus TorvaldsAug 23, 2008
  16. Andi KleenAug 23, 2008
  17. Linus TorvaldsAug 23, 2008
  18. Ingo MolnarAug 25, 2008
  19. Björn SteinbrinkAug 23, 2008
  20. Linus TorvaldsAug 23, 2008
  21. Björn SteinbrinkAug 23, 2008
  22. Documentating branches (was: nicer frontend to get rebased tree?)Marius Vollmer, Aug 23, 2008
  23. Miklos VajnaAug 23, 2008
  24. Marius VollmerAug 23, 2008
  25. Marius VollmerAug 23, 2008
  26. Avery PennarunAug 22, 2008
  27. Andi KleenAug 22, 2008
  28. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 22, 2008
  29. Jakub NarebskiAug 22, 2008
  30. Andi KleenAug 23, 2008
  31. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 23, 2008
  32. Jakub NarebskiAug 23, 2008
  33. Andi KleenAug 23, 2008
  34. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 23, 2008
  35. Linus TorvaldsAug 23, 2008
  36. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 23, 2008
  37. Björn SteinbrinkAug 23, 2008
  38. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2008
  39. Jakub NarebskiAug 23, 2008
  40. Theodore TsoAug 23, 2008
  41. A proposed solution (Was: nicer frontend to get rebased tree?)Theodore Tso, Aug 23, 2008
  42. Mikael MagnussonAug 22, 2008

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