History editing (Was: Will re-basing support be added into Bazaar core?)

[Aaron Bentley]

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Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> If you choose to collapse history to hide things prior to review, that's
> your choice. It's damn easy to do too. Just use diff to create a patch,
> create a fresh branch, apply your patch to it, commit and bzr send.

Even better, don't create a patch, just do "bzr merge" and then "bzr
revert --forget-merges".  That will give you proper support for renames,
execute bit changes, etc.

> There's nothing wrong with wanting to clean history before publishing
> a submission.

Personally, as someone accepting a submission, I prefer a dirty history.
 A dirty history will have all of the incremental commit messages so
that people can use gannotate later and get a better understanding of
why a change was done.

Aaron
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