[RFC] Proposed plugins to bundle for 2.0

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Thu Jun 25 12:14:46 BST 2009


Ali Sabil wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Teemu Likonen<tlikonen at iki.fi> wrote:
>> On 2009-06-25 05:57 (-0400), John Szakmeister wrote:
>>
>>> Once you understand that it's plucking your revisions and
>>> re-targetting to be based on a different revision, I think "rebase" as
>>> a command name makes quite a bit of sense.  rewrite-history seems
>>> slightly more vague to me.
>> I think it's also worth noticing that this certain other popular open
>> source DVCS tool has already established the name "rebase" very well.
>> Rebasing has become a concept of its own. If the feature is called
>> something else in Bazaar then you'll be explaining people all the time
>> that "yes, Bazaar supports rebase, it's called 'bzr historiographer'
>> because of $philosophical_reason."
>>
>> But I don't know. Maybe Bazaar invents totally different concepts for
>> manipulating history. Then perhaps different name for the command is fine.
>>
>>
> 
> This is not what I meant. I am all for keeping rebase as the command
> name, what I was suggesting is to have the current bzr-rebase plugin
> renamed, so that all the history manipulation commands (rebase, stash,
> filter-branch, ...) reside in the same plugin.
This has already happened a couple of weeks ago. See
http://launchpad.net/bzr-rewrite

Cheers,

Jelmer



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