From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:54:17 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <200711270622.lAR6MFXQ010010@mi0.bluebottle.com> <474C1F80.5060404@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: =?UTF-8?B?44GX44KJ44GE44GX44Gq44Gq44GT?= , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 27 14:54:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ix0ti-0006mA-Ln for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:54:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751761AbXK0Ny1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:54:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750976AbXK0Ny1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:54:27 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:38301 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750793AbXK0Ny0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:54:26 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2007 13:54:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 27 Nov 2007 14:54:22 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Shnh3RSnSWogbd6dcIKBgxXibhGAn2ZmO5a66k7 dN/npalqDQPoZC X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <474C1F80.5060404@op5.se> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > One thing that could go possibly wrong, for example, is to rebase > > commits that you already published. > > For the vast majority of git users, that's a non-issue as "published" is > usually defined as "pushed to the publicly advertised watering hole". No. This is only the "vast majority of git users told by their peers to use a central repository". Just because you use git like cvs does not mean that you "use git". > Yes, I'm aware that git is distributed. That doesn't mean that it's not > convenient to have one single place where all code meant to be released > eventually ends up. It may be convenient for you. I do not like it. Yes, I even made the mistake with msysGit. In the end, it would have been much more intelligent to set up a repository which others would have had to fork from. Ciao, Dscho