Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment

[Eric S. Raymond]

Sergey Organov <address@hidden>:
> > This is why git only lets you remove tip deltas.
> 
> Nah. See above.

Rebase is a different operation. It's forward composition after
you've chopped off a last segnment.
 
> And, strictly speaking, Git doesn't work in terms of deltas, nor does it
> remove anything. To get rid of a few last commits, it only moves the
> branch pointer back, and from the POV of drawbacks of history rewrite
> I don't think it's too different from removing commit(s) in the middle.

It's...quite different.  I had to wrestle with this when implementing
commit deletion in reposurgeon.
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