From: Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:48:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Rebasing Multiple branches at once...
Message-ID: <48F7542B.1050909@calicojack.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20081016135908.GI536@genesis.frugalware.org>

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:17:20PM +0100, Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk> wrote:
>> I have a master branch, a dev branch and a number of feature branches from 
>> dev.  And I was wondering if there was an easy way to rebase dev and all of 
>> it's sub-branches onto master.
> 
> In general this is considered harmful. Why do you rebase your branch
> from time to time? For example in git.git, topic branches are based on
> master, then merged to master when they are ready, but they are never
> rebased.

Yes, but my understanding is that it's only harmful if you publish the 
branch (or dependent branches) which are being rebased.

So rebasing is very bad in these circumstances, but I fail to see why 
it's bad if these branches are kept private.


R.