[MERGE][1.0?] cherrypicking/rebasing section for User Guide
Aaron Bentley
aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Thu Dec 13 21:36:53 GMT 2007
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Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> My impression is that people like [rebase] for cleaning private branches
> before sharing them. Once shared though, the cat has bolted, right?
Right. Rather like uncommit, only I think this effect of rebase is less
obvious.
There is an exception, which is the use of rebase to upgrade bzr-svn
branches to new versions of bzr-svn. Since this operation is
deterministic, two people doing it independently should be able to
interoperate afterwards.
>> Also, performance was not a reason for not supporting cherry-picking as
>> far as I know. I believe it's just that no one has gotten around to it.
>
> Ah. It always seemed like it would imply O(history) operations. I'll
> remove that note altogether.
Cool.
Aaron
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