Fixing rebase rather than avoiding it (was: Dulwich on Launchpad)

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed Mar 3 21:27:58 GMT 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 21:50 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 
> Bazaar (like Git or Mercurial) doesn't support modifying history; this
> includes adding parents. 

git can add nodes now; it has an additional relationship in the graph to
replace a node and thus replace the relationships it holds.

That said, please dig up my call-to-arms on history editing: there are
important uses for multiple styles of history editing, and an attempt to
start categorising them that may be of use in this conversation.

-Rob
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