Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:30:14AM CEST, I got a letter

where Aaron Bentley  said that...

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> Petr Baudis wrote:

> > Another aspect of this is that Git (Linus ;) is very focused on getting

> > the history right, nice and clean (though it does not _mandate_ it and

> > you can just wildly do one commit after another; it just provides tools

> > to easily do it).

>

> Yes, rebasing is very uncommon in the bzr community.  We would rather

> evaluate the complete change than walk through its history.  (Bundles

> only show the changes you made, not the changes you merged from the

> mainline.)

>

> In an earlier form, bundles contained a patch for every revision, and

> people *hated* reading them.  So there's definitely a cultural

> difference there.

BTW, I think what describes the Git's (kernel's) stance very nicely is

what I call the Al Viro's "homework problem":
	http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/176
If I understand you right, the bzr approach is what's described as "the

dumbest kind" there? (No offense meant!)
--

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis

Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/

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