To rerwite history or not - that's the question

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Feb 21 17:53:00 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:08 -0500, Greg Ward wrote:

> Depends on the project and workflow. Linus Torvalds wrote an excellent
> rant on the dangers of rebase:
> 
>   https://wincent.com/wiki/git_rebase:_you%27re_doing_it_wrong
> 
> That applies just as much to Mercurial as it does to git.

It's worth noting that most of that rant no longer applies to Mercurial
because of phases. Mercurial's rebase won't let you touch published
changesets.

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