Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:30:14AM CEST, I got a letter
where Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca> said that...
quoted text
> 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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