On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> On May 18, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov < > flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > The fact there are morons among your technical staff is unfortunate > > (and I sympathize you on this) but this has nothing to do with Git. > > From a “rebase doesn’t kill repositories, people kill repositories” > standpoint, I suppose you are correct. > > Nevertheless, it’s been pretty thoroughly argued on this list that the > arguments in favor of rebase are all either esoteric or wrong, so unless > you really do have one of those esoteric needs, it’s best to use an SCM > that doesn’t let you do that. > > I will disagree with your characterization of Scott’s coworkers as morons, > however. They’re likely technically competent, but they have ignored the > Spider Man principle: with great power comes great responsibility. When > you draw rebase from your git holster in anger, you’d best be prepared to > take responsibility for everything that happens to all of the clones of > that repository until they’ve all git-pulled. > > I find myself without a good reason to rebase, so I am relieved that I do > not have to take responsibility for my [mis]uses of it. > And they are taking responsibility. The frustrating part for me is that this is not the first time this has happened. Well, that, and that a telecommute day turned into a day in the office because I needed to coordinate with people more closely than I could remotely. -- Scott Robison
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