Workflows, rebase, patch theory
Aaron Bentley
aaron at aaronbentley.com
Tue May 13 17:41:51 BST 2008
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> For someone who was introduced to DVCS via GNU Arch -> baz -> bzr, and
>>>> who hasn't used git, all this talk of "rebase" is foreign. (It also
>>> Arch has a limited form of rebasing: "tla update".
>> I don't think the comparison is apt. tla update was a
>> history-preserving operation.
>
> The "branch" it rebases consists in a single (uncommited) changeset,
> namely the local changes.
Okay, I can see where you're coming from, but to me, "rebase" is about
regenerating history, and uncommitted changes have no history by definition.
I don't think that the properties you're describing are unique to tla--
Bazaar's "update" and "pull" do the same thing.
Aaron
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