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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