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

[Michael Raskin]

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On 08/12/2010 08:16 PM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
>> 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.

This is a way to lose workspace only. And I said, that the risk is the
same with any VCS anyway.

>> 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;

Many projects encourage (not to say require) rebasing
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