Will re-basing support be added into Bazaar core ?

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 11:24 +0100, James Westby wrote:


> You have talked some about the reflog, which we don't have a related
> concept for in Bazaar (yet [1]). Am I correct in saying that the
> reflog is local to your repository (it certainly isn't included in
> format-patch output, but I'm not sure if "pull" transfers it)? If so
> then it's locality seems to limit its use. Yes, the original revisions
> are still in your repository, but I can't see them, and you won't be
> able to one day. This means the original revisions will be lost 
> eventually.

The reflog isn't propogated, rather the reflog in the target repository
records the changes made to it. It would be fairly easy to modify things
to allow repeating names in a git push, which would give you an
approximation.

> [1] I plan to present a plan for something that will provide some of the
> same facilities post 2.0, but it will look somewhat different, and will
> hopefully be more usable.

I suspect a bunch of people have plans - lets get them out in the air
and under discussion as proposals / BEPs.

-Rob
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