From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:20:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Git rebase using "wrong" commit
Message-ID: <7vws2plq38.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200910201521.05526.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Note that there is no real reason to rebase continually unless you
> want to kick out flawed topics or old versions of branches.  For
> example, git.git only rebases 'next' immediately after a release.
> Furthermore, even if you go for the 'pu' model which is rebuilt all
> the time, you can automate this with a script.  There is one in the
> 'todo' branch of git.git, called PU.
>
> (I myself just use a list of topics I want merged, and a simple 'git
> merge $topic' loop.)

I do not use PU nor RB from todo these days, by the way.  I instead
rebuild my branches with Reintegrate (also from todo).