On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:00:18PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Do you think anybody is that perfect? I was being slightly facetious. Of course everyone makes mistakes and corrects them. But if you _want_ the history, you have to take it. Otherwise, you are required to throw away the history completely. And that -- do you want the whole history or none of it -- is the crux of my question. > What happens in reality is something like this: [ understood work model snipped ] > I do not know about the kernel tree but I would be surprised if > any self-respecting developer wouldn't be doing this. The > review-decomposition-reapplication cycle is *very* important for > both keeping the public history clean and reviewable, and > preservign your public image ;-). I could care less about preserving my public image. I'm an idiot, I screw up all the time. I only care that the tip of my tree is respectable. I've seen arguments from folks on both sides -- the intermediate history is important, warts and all, vs throw it all out for a clean public history. It seems that you fall into the second camp. That's fine, but can we make that work model a first-class citizen? Can we get a script that pulls one branch as a single, un-historied (sic) commit into the current branch? If this is The Way, I should have to be mucking about with many steps of diff/patch (at least unless my change is large enough to require split patches). Joel -- "It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." - Robert H. Jackson Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Nov 01 08:36:55 2005
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