Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 27, 2007, 11:12 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711271109130.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200711270622.lAR6MFXQ010010@mi0.bluebottle.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, しらいしななこ wrote:

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> Quoting Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:
> 
> > "git pull --rebase" already has an implementation. Dscho cooked one up
> > which I've been using since then. It works nicely.
> 
> What is the reason that the option was not added to the official git?  
> Was it coded poorly, buggy or were there some other issues?

It is very well possible that it was coded poorly ;-)

The main reason, I believe, was that some old-timers who know the implications said that it would encourage a wrong workflow. One thing that could go possibly wrong, for example, is to rebase commits that you already published.

So AFAICT it was deemed not only giving people rope, but making that rope look like a necklace to them.

Ciao, Dscho