On Sun, Mar 28 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Petr Baudis wrote: > >> But if you need to fix up an already committed commit, you either make >> a new commit, which will break (ii), or you rebase, which will break >> anyone else working on a clone of your repository and break (i). > > Yes, but is it so bad ?
Yes. > Usually, you have only one person or very few ones working very > closely together per package. So that shouldnt hurt so much that > it's worth all the complexity. False assumption: it might be the case for you that you work in a small team, and know all people who base their work on yours, and perhaps you package for a leaf distribution. None of those hold in my case. > Another, trivial, way is to simply add some prefix or other > formalized metadata into the commit messages, so it can be > easily parsed+handled by some little script. Sounds like a kludge. manoj -- Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438 C577 9A1C _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss