Re: Messing with the VC history

[Barry Warsaw]

On Nov 18, 2014, at 04:53 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>I find bisect very useful on occasion, so would rule out Type A if at all
>possible.  But I find Type B plausible, and think it's a matter of taste.

bisect would be more useful, IMHO, if it followed first-parents by default.
IOW, when merging a feature branch into "mainline", I don't care whether
intermediate commits on the feature branch don't pass all their tests.  I *do*
care that every commit on "mainline" passes all their tests.

>[1]  However, some people think a mainline with only merge commits on
>it is pretty, and they just oppose rebasing on principle.

\o

Cheers,
-Barry

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