Will re-basing support be added into Bazaar core ?

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Wed Apr 22 03:45:21 BST 2009


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> What I do claim is that rebase alters the history of a branch.  In bzr (the
> topic of this mailing list) this is clearly true, as there is no way to make
> a revision part of a branch except via the branch's ancestry.  So performing
> an operation on the branch that results in a new ancestry that does not
> contain that revision is removing history from that branch.  You could add a
> revision property to name a revision not in the ancestry...

just as a quick comment, I think 'bzr-rebase' does exactly that. So you
*could* infer the original revision given the rebased revision's properties.

John
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