From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:24:52 GMT
Subject: Re: nicer frontend to get rebased tree?
Message-ID: <48AFD764.7010605@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080823071014.GT23334@one.firstfloor.org>

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Exactly. Don't rebase. And don't base your development on somebody who 
>> does.
> 
> That's pretty much impossible in the current state of Linux development
> as far as I know.
> 
>> Remember how I told you that you should never rebase?
> 
> I suspect your recommendation does not match real world git use.

I think if you have to rebase often, you're actually better off using
stgit (patch queues is what the mercurial folks use instead of
often-rebased local branches).

Disclaimer: I am not an stgit user myself.

Paolo