On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 18:42 -0500, Jonathon Reinhart wrote: > > Dirk Bächle <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > I *don't* want the history in my repos to be mutable... > > > > All of the major Git hosting providers have *protected branches* > > which are > > immutable. > > But isn't that a red herring? Git hosters are just a final mainline > hoster imposing CVCS models. Git is all about DVCS ostensibly, though > more and more people are reverting to CVCS with local caching as their > working model because of GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket. > > The point here is that someone can mutate a branch locally and then > force it to the mainline. Some people think this a good thing. > Especially with the rise on GitHub of the habit of pull requests > demanding commit squashing. > sorry for posting here, i usually just lurk on this list because i am interested in build tools. i doubt that mercurial will die out - their mailing list seems more busy than ever. history rewrite can be done with mercurial nowadays with extensions, and will come even more, just note facebooks "hg absorb" extension. a nice write up about future plans from the mozilla dev list: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.version-control/nh4fITFlEMk/discussion rupert
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