Re: rebasing

[Stefan Monnier]

> One thing that concerns me is the anti-rebasing dogma that one hears
> from canonical.  Does anybody know if it's just dogma, or does bzr
> actually have technical problems with rebasing?

AFAIK, bzr supports rebase less well than Git, both in the sense that
it's a separate plugin, and in the sense that it really doesn't keep
track of the ancestry pre-rebase, contrary to Git which does keep some
info about it.  AFAIK, there's no deep reason for that.

As maintainer, I don't care if people rebase rather than merge before
installing changes from their local branch to the trunk.  It probably
results in cleaner patches/history, so it's fine by me.


        Stefan