From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:43:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: add `--update-refs=interactive`
Message-ID: <27f4e010-e2fb-4e80-b64d-3843c9fc3f55@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh64zumkw.fsf@gitster.g>

On 12/02/2025 16:58, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Maintaining multiple versions of the same branch sounds like a lot of
>> work - whats the advantage over merging a single branch into each
>> release?
> 
> Making a single branch that would merge to each release track
> cleanly, with preparing and maintaining semantic fixes necessary for
> each track, is probably equally a lot of work, if not more.  I try
> to do that for this project only because I am a perfectionist for
> these things (and do so for fun), but I can understand if many
> others (a pragmatist in me included) consider it not worth the
> effort.  After all, it stops mattering once the branch finally gets
> merged.

Thanks for that insight, I'd assumed the benefits of having a single 
source of truth for each branch outweighed the costs but it seems that 
is not necessarily the case.

Best Wishes

Phillip