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A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Posted Apr 5, 2010 14:10 UTC (Mon) by fw (subscriber, #26023)
In reply to: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap by jengelh
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Those fix-up commits aren't pretty. But I've seen Git histories which contain merges of both the rebased and non-rebased versions of development history. This is far worse. When such things happen, it can become very difficult to extract any relevant information from the DAG, severely limiting its usefulness.


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A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Posted Apr 6, 2010 23:04 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

You shouldn't publish rebased branches (or any branches with rewritten history that was seen before). In true Unix tradition, git provides plenty of rope to shoot your feet with...

A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Posted Apr 6, 2010 23:14 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

And SVN provides the gun to hang yourself with? :-)

A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Posted Apr 7, 2010 17:19 UTC (Wed) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]

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