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Re: Git drawbacks?

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Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date
Nov 10, 2009, 16:20 UTC
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On 11/10/2009 03:54 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> This is a cool feature, but it contradicts to my understanding of VCS.
Not really.  As long as the history is not public, nobody will notice.

It is basically the same as using a centralized svn repository (corresponding to public branches) and quilt for private patch queues. You can push and pop patches as much as you want in quilt, and you can rewrite history as much as you want in git private branches.

Now I'm not very proficient with quilt, but if I understood it right, git is much easier to do because you use only one tool and thus you can rely on the same algorithms for merging and conflict reporting also in the case of private branches. I've certainly done some insane reordering of patches and it worked like a charm; also, git keeps a log of the states so it takes a single "git diff" invocation to check that the end result of a reorganization is the same as what you started from.

Paolo
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