Re: rsync update appears broken now

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: 2005-10-21 10:34:49
Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:19:42AM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > It does not have to be a fast-forward. After all, what is another merge? 
> > Since that merge does not have Junio as committer, close inspection of 
> > the commit will reveal that.
> 
> It _does_ have to be a fast-forward, if you expect the tree to have the 
> same content as Junio's.
> 
> Even if it merges everything automatically, if the history is different, 
> it could in theory at least merge _differently_ than what Junio had. Plus 
> you'll have a really ugly version history for no good reason.

And if Junio will want to merge with many of those people, you will
better have to get a dualhead for your gitk.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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