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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 17:39, Georg Brandl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g.brandl@gmx.net">g.brandl@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">The reason why rebasing is not universally applied is that the</div>
rebased changesets are different from the original ones (therefore<br>
I wrote A' and B') -- even if the diff is the same, the parents<br>
are not, and therefore the changeset id (hash) changes. Â This is<br>
called "changing history", and frowned upon by purists. Â In reality<br>
it works fine if you know the limits:</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's frowned upon by more than just purists, and it works "in reality" as fine as handing out your creditcard and personal information over the internet; you can't always tell the result is bad, and it can be very painful finding out.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jaywalking-and-unprotected-sex-metaphors-available-on-demand'ly y'rs,</div></div>-- <br>Thomas Wouters <<a href="mailto:thomas@python.org">thomas@python.org</a>><br><br>Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!<br>
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