Advocacy vs. git

[Kevin Bullock]

On 24 Apr 2009, at 4:59 PM, Theodore Tso wrote:

> Secondly, I disagree with your strawman that "git rebase" gives it an
> inherent advantage of Mercurial.  The reality is that Mercurial has
> most of the functionality of rebase; it may not be as convenient to
> use, and it might not be as fast from a performance point of view, and
> you may have to explicitly enable it since Mercurial's author thinks
> that any kind of history modification after it has been committed into
> the local repository is should be avoided.

I disagree with the straw man too—that's kinda what I was driving at,  
that Mercurial *does* have the functionality. I pretty much agree with  
Matt's (now stated and clarified) stance, that if you're modifying  
history, you better know the implications.

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Kevin R. Bullock