From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 08:49:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Instead of rebasing, etc....?
Message-ID: <AANLkTikikb5rKfxBlqrNfgLQhKRYKZ_e-760vWEMLKQ1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100507T003055-527@post.gmane.org>

Hi,

> Of course then I want to push dev and move origin/dev to refer to it.
> So I delete and recreate origin/dev.  That's essentially like
> rebasing, and all the advice says "don't do it."  How bad is that,
> really, if it's my own development branch?

If I understand correctly, you want a non-FF push. Simply develop on
dev and `git push origin +dev:dev` to force a non-FF push. It's not
bad at all if your branch isn't public and others aren't pulling from
it.

-- Ram