I'm pretty sure that "rebase" or its equivalents will never be a part of Fossil. Given that there are tools out there (like Git) that feature this functionality that some (and I stress it's only *some*) users want, perhaps this following question is to practical but … why not use Git, the tool that has the feature you want? This arguing over whether rebase is good or bad and whether you're a good or bad person for wanting it is futile. I'm pretty damned sure that it's not going to ever be added (given Richard Hipp's philosophical stance on rewriting repository history).
TL;DR version: stop whining and use Git if you want Git. On 30 December 2012 12:29, Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> wrote: > > > Nico Williams <n...@cryptonector.com> wrote: > > >On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> wrote: > >> You missed the point. Nothing should *ever* be rebased. It's a > >rewrite of history, which is a fundamentally bad thing. While a SCM > >should make generating patch files easy, it shouldn't require rewrites > >of history to do so. > >You missed my proposal that a fossil rebase operation always copy the > >branch being rebased and rebase that copy. It was in my very first > >post on this thread: > > I didn't miss it. I asked for clarification, for two reasons: > > 1) Rebase involves two branches, both of which get changed. Your proposal > only mentions one. Given that I'm not all that familiar with rebase, I have > *no* idea what this means in terms of additions to the history tree. > > 2) Your use case (generating patches to make upstream happy) isn't one > I've ever experienced, but it doesn't sound like it needs to change the > tree at all. > > So, for the third time, can you describe your proposed new feature > *without* saying the words "git" or "rebase". > -- > Sent from my Android tablet with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my swyping. > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > -- "Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions of entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese people. It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot." --Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.
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