[Nix-dev] Re: Re: DVCS - what we care about?

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Michael Raskin wrote:

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>>> Now, there are some properties:
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>>> 5) Reliability w.r.t. user actions. (Dangerous things are obvious)
>> Do you write a message "against git", or "what do we need"? Please, list
>> some dangerous things here.
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> Well, if I mention reliability, it is obviously two-fold.
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> If I want to give an example of dangerous things, these can be forced
> removal of a revision/certificate in monotone, rollback in mercurial,
> (workspace-only dangerous) revert in any VCS.
Just deny git force-push.
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> If we consider this a significant point and if we recommend people to
> rebase their changes relative to trunk, we can look at how rebasing
> should be done in different VCSes.
Why rebase? In git you can merge with upstream. This will create a tree like 
this (parent -> child):

a -> b -> c;
a -> d;
c -> e; d -> e;