[LAD] OT - git rebase - was [LAU] OpenOctaveMidi2 (OOM2) beta release

[Robin Gareus]

On 01/28/2011 04:37 PM, torbenh wrote:

> you really need to keep your history clean. 
> take a bit of time. use git rebase -i
> before you push stuff upstream.
> (or at least before you merge it into the master branch)
> 
> this makes me sad.

Hi Torben,

Was that meant as sarcasm (kill the git hitory) or seriously - allow
upsteam to cherry-pick easily?

I rarely use rebase and only on local topic branches that have never
been pushed to a public repo. It changes the history and will cause
problems to anyone who has pulled that branch before.

Since you are a git guru, could you please elaborate?

TIA,
robin