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Re: base
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: base |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:34:27 +0900 |
Leo writes:
> But the minute you publish your screwed-up history to the shared
> repo, you can not escape being caught (in git it will happen as
> soon as someone does a fetch) and as a result you lose the trust of
> your peer developers. The history will then be reset to the correct
> one (push -f) and possibly also an apology for the screwup.
Well, sure. But that kind of punishment is a poor motivator in
general, and certainly not desirable in volunteer projects.
This kind of thing is one reason why git has a poor reputation. I
believe it is undeserved, but it's real. Just today there was a post
on address@hidden to the effect of "Please please please don't tell
me I can't do X and will have to use git."
- Re: base, (continued)
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- Re: base, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/22
- Re: base, Uday S Reddy, 2010/08/23
- Re: base, Leo, 2010/08/23
- Re: base, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/23
- Re: base, Richard Stallman, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Leo, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Andreas Schwab, 2010/08/24
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- Re: base, Miles Bader, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Miles Bader, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Andreas Schwab, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Leo, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/08/24
- Re: base, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/08/24