programming reddit: "Bazaar blows goats"

[David Muir]

Forest Bond wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:58:56AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>   
>> Note that on the emacs-devel list there are a couple of vocal regulars
>> pushing for a git-oriented view (and this matters, because it would be
>> embedded in vc.el IIUC).  Specifically, this history
>>
>> 3.  merge "Fix a typo."
>>     3.1 Fix a typo.
>> 2.  Add a Feature.
>>
>> is being called evil.  Andreas sorta backtracked on that, but I think
>> that's the way he really feels about it.
>>     
>
> I don't get it.  If people want their merges to look like plain old commits,
> they just need to tell bzr that.  Why not merge "Fix a typo.", revert
> --forget-merges, and then commit -m 'Fix a typo.'?  A trivial script could save
> some typing.
>
> -Forest
>   

I'd say this is a developer experience/education issue rather than a bzr 
issue.
Wouldn't the above situation happen in git or hg as well with no fast 
forward?

It sounds more like a gripe about developer slackness in writing good 
commit messages than anything else...

Also, couldn't the above be solved by merging changes into an 
intermediary branch, so you can collapse a series of "wip" commits into 
a couple of commits to be shared?

eg.
3. Fix for bug xxxx
    3.3 Updated documentation
    3.2 Fix for bug xxxx
    3.1 Unit tests

David
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