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Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Wed Mar 3 12:41:06 GMT 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 23:36 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:50 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > > As a user, as soon as there is enforced rebasing, the perceived
> > > > utility of the product drops to zero -- experience from
> > > > Bazaar<->Subversion.
> > > What about the enforced rebasing is so problematic?
> >
> > It means that a simple "bzr pull" no longer works because the branches
> > have diverged. I agree that "bzr pull --overwrite" does the job but it
> > seems overly heavy-handed. Also it means that any local branching and
> > checking out from the branch is totally disrupted because the DAG
> > structure has changed. Unless I am missing something . . . which is a
> > distinct possibility.
> 
> All of which can be inferred from the core issue: That a rebase
> operation is lossy. That's what's at the root of its problems. (At
> least, that's as I understand it from how it's been described to me many
> times here.)
The fact that a rebase operation is lossy isn't really problematic
unless you've already shared the rebased revisions.

In this particular case it's my bad for sharing them before I had
dpushed them.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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