Re: rebasing

[Karl Fogel]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>[I posted this question to a thread in the ding (gnus) list, but thought
>I'd ask it here too.]
>
>One thing that concerns me is the anti-rebasing dogma that one hears
>from canonical.  Does anybody know if it's just dogma, or does bzr
>actually have technical problems with rebasing?
>
>I ask because for the common small random commits case, it seems _much_
>better to just commit to the trunk locally and rebase these local
>commits on pulling from the main repository; the "keep N branches and
>merge back and forth, even for trivial commits" recipe that is
>apparently advocated for emacs seems like a huge annoyance.

I strongly recommend asking this question on the Bazaar list.  The
answers you get from the ding (gnus) list and from the Emacs list will
be heartfelt, I'm sure, but may miss some technicality that turns out to
be important.