[Nix-dev] Nixpkgs and NixOS moved to GitHub

Peter Simons simons at cryp.to
Fri Jun 22 15:30:10 CEST 2012


ludo at gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

 > Automatic merge commits (when pushing something to a branch
 > that has been fast-forwarded in the meantime) make the history
 > gratuitously non-linear, and thus much harder to follow (both
 > for humans and for tools like ‘git bisect’).

I typically address that by running "git pull --rebase" or even
"git config branch.master.rebase true".

Anyway, is my understanding correct that right now pretty no-one
can commit to Nixpkgs? I think that's not a particularly good
situation to be in.

Take care,
Peter



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