Re: [PATCH] rebase: add `--update-refs=interactive`

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2025, 16:58 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh64zumkw.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <5b605c3e-ef6a-433a-9637-1e8f277dfde9@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> Maintaining multiple versions of the same branch sounds like a lot of
> work - whats the advantage over merging a single branch into each
> release?

Making a single branch that would merge to each release track cleanly, with preparing and maintaining semantic fixes necessary for each track, is probably equally a lot of work, if not more. I try to do that for this project only because I am a perfectionist for these things (and do so for fun), but I can understand if many others (a pragmatist in me included) consider it not worth the effort. After all, it stops mattering once the branch finally gets merged.