Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> writes: > 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. > 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? I think you read me wrong. Didn't I say "decompose and make them into logical stepS", emphasis on plural "S"? Single big consolidated patch is not what I am advocating for. It is impossible to review and evaluate. To be merged into a public tree, such unhistoried commit is often unacceptable. - 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 09:15:37 2005
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