Re: antisocial things you can do in git (but not CVS)

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 13:05, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)toroid(dot)org> wrote:
> At 2010-07-21 12:55:55 +0200, magnus(at)hagander(dot)net wrote:
>>
>> We are not changing the workflow, just the tool.
>
> OK, but I don't see why accidental merge commits need to be considered
> antisocial, and banned or rebased away. Who cares if they exist? They
> don't change anything you need to do to pull, create, view, or push
> changes.

They makes it harder to track how the project has moved along for
people who don't really know about the concept.

I'm not sure, but I bet they may cause issues for those tracking the
project through git-cvs, or any other tool that doesn't deal with
nonlinear history.

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