Python Goes Mercurial

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:

>
> "You can do it, but as soon as you go to merge with another repo that
> had the unedited commit history, you’ll bump into weirdness (and
> probably invalidate your whole reason for rebasing, which was to clean
> up the history)."
>
>  - http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2008/6/30/rebasing_is_editing_commits/
>
> I'm sure other people have their own tales of a similar nature.

It is explained in this article why rebase can't be used for something
which will be the base for upcoming merges; not all branches are
intended this way (but most public ones are). I would say this shows
one feature which I think matters a lot in git, more than rebasing
itself: multiple branches in a repo, and very cheap branching (in CPU
cost, space and workflow) so that you can use private branches for
experimentation.

cheers,

David