From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 08:39:16 GMT
Subject: Re: visualizing Git's Git repo
Message-ID: <m37ide3jtf.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805271957430.2958@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> 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

-- 
Jakub Narebski
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