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Re: visualizing Git's Git repo

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 28, 2008, 08:39 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> On Mon, 26 May 2008, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> >
> > 2. as a project, why don't you rebase when merging long-running branches into
> > master?
> 
> For the kernel, there's been a lot of discussion about why I prefer people 
> to rebase vs merge (or often - *avoiding* merges entirely), see the kernel 
> mailing list, and search for merging. There was a thread (subject: 
> "[alsa-devel] HG -> GIT migration") about a week ago where I tried to 
> explain my opinions about about some of this.
You can read summary of this (I think) discussion at KernelTrap:
  http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Git_Management
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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Message 9 of 9 in “visualizing Git's Git repo”
  1. Joshua HabermanMay 26, 2008
  2. Eric HanchrowMay 26, 2008
  3. Joshua HabermanMay 26, 2008
  4. Shawn O. PearceMay 26, 2008
  5. Björn SteinbrinkMay 27, 2008
  6. Joshua HabermanMay 27, 2008
  7. Jeff KingMay 27, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 28, 2008
  9. Jakub NarebskiMay 28, 2008

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