Will re-basing support be added into Bazaar core ?
Stephen J. Turnbull
turnbull at sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Tue Apr 21 05:03:15 BST 2009
Ben Finney writes:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
>
> > Second, to the extent it's used in a deprecatory way, "altering
> > history" confounds the history of the development process with the
> > history of a *name*. If the VCS did a better job of tracking the name
> > and avoided spurious conflicts in later merges, I bet people would
> > hardly notice the reordering of commits.
>
> You'll have to be more specific about what you mean by "name" there.
> Bazaar already tracks a number of things by name; what new thing are you
> expecting to be tracked by name that Bazaar isn't currently doing?
I'm talking about git refs, specifically branch heads. Bazaar tracks
those, of course, but
revid:steve at stephen-turnbulls-macbook-pro.local-20090420151627-l54jir6nb8j5st02
is hardly what I'd call a *name*.
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