From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69369 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus VCS issues Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:27:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1234049754.2390.1299107629@webmail.messagingengine.com> <86d4drnzf1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fxin9qgm.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <867i1otupq.fsf@lifelogs.com> <874owos9il.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <867i1kicou.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877hxjzm2u.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aawse3w6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyur451i.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <877hrlwvwk.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87pr54akb4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrzc7721.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87vdewz665.fsf@randomsample.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264426082 12367 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2010 13:28:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:28:02 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17773@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jan 25 14:27:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NZOyv-0006cH-S8 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:27:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NZOyQ-0001qu-Qb; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:27:22 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NZOyM-0001qF-VO for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:27:18 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NZOyH-0003tv-TF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:27:18 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1NZOy9-0000jS-00 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:27:05 +0100 Original-Received: from mail01.m-online.net (mail.m-online.net [192.168.3.149]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B93FD1C00291 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:27:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3B290053 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:27:04 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.3.149]) by localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id I2ibVZ2KP-aW for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:27:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from igel.home (DSL01.83.171.176.225.ip-pool.NEFkom.net [83.171.176.225]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:27:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id E82FBCA296; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:27:00 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: BEEP-BEEP!! I'm a '49 STUDEBAKER!! In-Reply-To: (David Engster's message of "Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:10:06 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.2 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69369 Archived-At: David Engster writes: > I agree. It all boils down to how one works with a DVCS. If you use it > in a really decentralized manner, rebasing will mess things up for > people pulling from you. However, for projects with a central > repository, with people sending patches to a maintainer, rebasing is > just the obvious thing to do (at least for me. :-) ). This has nothing to do with distributed vs centralized, but it's all about public vs private branches. On a private branch you can rewrite history as much as you like, and will generally result in a cleaner history if done properly. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."