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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 27, 2007, 13:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711271352050.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <474C1F80.5060404@op5.se>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> >  One thing that could go possibly wrong, for example, is to rebase 
> > commits that you already published.
> 
> For the vast majority of git users, that's a non-issue as "published" is 
> usually defined as "pushed to the publicly advertised watering hole".

No. This is only the "vast majority of git users told by their peers to use a central repository".

Just because you use git like cvs does not mean that you "use git".

> Yes, I'm aware that git is distributed. That doesn't mean that it's not 
> convenient to have one single place where all code meant to be released 
> eventually ends up.

It may be convenient for you. I do not like it. Yes, I even made the mistake with msysGit. In the end, it would have been much more intelligent to set up a repository which others would have had to fork from.

Ciao, Dscho