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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Mention to the user that they can reorder commits
From: SZEDER =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor?= <szeder () ira ! uka ! de>
Date: 2009-02-19 10:16:38
Message-ID: 20090219101638.GA20707 () neumann
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:13:49AM +0000, Pieter de Bie wrote:
>
> On 19 feb 2009, at 07:37, John Tapsell wrote:
>
>> Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
>> ---
>
> Yes, this has been raised many times in #git now, so it makes
> sense to include it.
A similar idea came around last week, and in turn Dscho explained why
such a change is not a good idea. I think he is fully right here.
<alpine.DEB.1.00.0902092228470.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/109136
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:31:56PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> If we start along those lines, we also have to add documentation how
> to
>
> - split commit,
>
> - change authorship of commits,
>
> - deal with commits where --cherry-pick did not detect that they were
> applied already,
>
> - deal with merge commits, and
>
> - possibly a lot more.
>
> I do not think that this is a good way to spend valuable screen
> estate; I
> think that is what the man page should cover.
>
> I only made an exception for the deletion of lines, as people were
> actively burnt. Yes, they should have read the man page. But the
> consequences of not doing so were bad.
Regards,
Gábor
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