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Mon Mar 21 18:07:40 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/109685.html

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:20:15 -0400
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2011, at 04:39 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
> 
> >On 20.03.2011 16:21, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >> What is "rebase"? Why does everyone want it and hate it at the same time?
> >
> >Basically, rebase is a way to avoid having pointless merge commits on the
> >same branch.
> 
> There's something I don't understand about rebase.  It seems like most git and
> hg users I hear from advocate rebase, while (ISTM) few Bazaar users do.

I don't think many hg users advocate rebase, really. AFAICT the
Mercurial developers themselves don't seem to use it (they do use mq,
OTOH).

Regards

Antoine.

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