Re: missing git features (was: Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils)

From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: 2006-03-25 03:44:20
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:59:02 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> See how Junio does with next and pu and recommend your users to do the 
> same. There's no way of pulling a rebased branch, because the rebasing 
> destroys ancestry information, meaning the original commits other people 
> have cease to exist in your repository.

But the "other people" still have those commits, so it should be
rather straightforward for a tool to also perform a rebase for them
when doing this kind of "rebased pull". I think there's just a single
arc of data missing showing where a rebased commit object came from.

So this sounds solvable, and it is something I would very much enjoy
having, (call me funny, but I prefer to rebase and avoid a merge
commit when looking at independent lines of development for which
logically there shouldn't be any "merge" required).

-Carl

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