Re: base

[Leo]

On 2010-08-24 07:01 +0100, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> True as you mean it. However, it is technically possible (especially
> in git) to change *pointers* to shared history in a way that can
> really confuse the tool. And in Bazaar and Mercurial it's even worse;
> they don't provide reflogs or rerere, so you can really wedge things
> if the rebase involves conflicts and the original branches have been
> deleted.

But the minute you publish your screwed-up history to the shared repo,
you can not escape being caught (in git it will happen as soon as
someone does a fetch) and as a result you lose the trust of your peer
developers. The history will then be reset to the correct one (push -f)
and possibly also an apology for the screwup.

Leo