git rebase - can hg do that ?

[David Jack Olrik]

On 29/05/2007, at 16.13, TK Soh wrote:

> so I wonder how git copes with this kind of changes between clones.  
> The question is that if we rebase a repo, wouldn't it break the  
> repos that were cloned before the rebase?

Well, yes it would break those, and git doesn't handle that either.  
But thats ok! - rebase is a very powerful tool that should be used  
with caution, plus it is only meant for your local topic branches.  
E.g. when you have a long lived branch that you pull from multiple  
times.

Without rebase you would end up with a mesh of your changes, upstream  
changes and your changes to upstream changes. And for each pull this  
will get messier. With rebase it is very easy to distinguish local  
changes from upstream changes.

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