"Steve Teale" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:38:03 +0100, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > >> Hi folks! >> >> This is a friendly request for D core devs to use 'git pull --rebase' >> instead of just plain 'git pull' when pulling remote changes into local >> repositories. The reason for this is that it takes any outstanding >> commits in your local tree, unrolls them, pulls in the remote changes, >> and reapplies your local commits *without creating a merge commit*. This >> helps keep history clean and easier to navigate, making everyone's life >> that much easier. :) >> >> For example: >> >> $ git commit -m "my local stuff" >> $ git pull --rebase origin master >> $ git push origin master >> > Obviously I'm in a grumpy mood today, but isn't all this VCS stuff > somewhat off-topic? It certainly seems to be growing in volume. > > This is the digitalmars.D group. Seems that we need a > digitalmars.D.process group as well. The first (long) posting might well > be some kind of explanation of what the process is. >
I think it seems generally accepted that the D NGs are just misleadingly named.
