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Re: [mylyn-reviews-dev] git best practices

+1, Agree, we normally work in distinct areas which should allow us to
do rebase for the most part

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Matthias Sohn
<matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2011/2/15 Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Sounds like there are benefits and risks to rebasing before pushing and
>> there may not be a one-fits-all policy that works for all cases.
>>
>> Looking at the specific history of the Reviews project repository it seems
>> that most merge commits could have been eliminated as there weren't any
>> conflicts to resolve. Since we have four different components that are
>> fairly independent I would expect this will be a common case unless several
>> people work in the same area of a component concurrently.
>>
>> As a compromise, can we agree on a strong recommendation to run a "git
>> pull --rebase" before pushing to keep the history as linear as possible? In
>> the end it should be up to each committer to make the call whether it's
>> worth the risk and trouble to rebase but generally I would like to encourage
>> it.
>
> +1, that sounds reasonable to me
>
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