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From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rebasing Multiple branches at once...
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:00:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081016210002.GJ536@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F7542B.1050909@calicojack.co.uk>

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 03:48:11PM +0100, Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk> wrote:
> Yes, but my understanding is that it's only harmful if you publish the 
> branch (or dependent branches) which are being rebased.
> 
> So rebasing is very bad in these circumstances, but I fail to see why it's 
> bad if these branches are kept private.

Ah, I thought you publish your branches.

One reason may be that if you use merge, no history is lost, if you use
rebase, history is in the reflogs, so it'll be lost after some time. But
if you know what you are doing, then this is not a problem.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-16 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-16 12:17 Rebasing Multiple branches at once Rick Moynihan
2008-10-16 13:59 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-16 14:48   ` Rick Moynihan
2008-10-16 21:00     ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
2008-10-17  2:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-16 13:59 ` David Kastrup
2008-10-16 14:57   ` Rick Moynihan
2008-10-16 15:02     ` Robin Burchell
2008-10-16 20:27 ` Toby Allsopp
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-12-31  8:14 Rebasing multiple " Mike Hommey
2017-01-01  2:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-02  6:42   ` Jeff King
2017-01-01  8:42 ` Johannes Sixt

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