On Thursday 6. September 2018 12.21.17 Timothy Pearson wrote: > On the topic of history rewrite, I'd argue that allowing it on a private > (read: development) repository provides better commits and less chance > of losing work. It allows the developer to incrementally commit small, > incomplete, possibly even wrong changes, then decide how they should be > packaged and layered before attempting a merge. Without this > capability, our programmers would tend to keep a massive chunk of > unstaged changes locally, then submit the entire mess for review once it > was working properly. History rewrite allows the developer to verify a > multi-week, multi-layer, self-dependent modification and still be able > to split it apart into logical, incremental chunks with relative ease.
But are they sharing the changes they commit before rewriting the history and sharing it with colleagues? > I can't imagine working without this feature. The lack of that feature > on other source control systems might explain the relatively poor commit > quality we have observed on those systems (or from people trained on > those systems) over time -- their commits to be very large, doing way > too much and touching too many files. Needles to say this causes a > massive headache if/when the patch introduces a regression. I think it depends more on the workflow more than the features of the revision control system. Of course, those people used to non-distributed systems may be in the habit of batching their commits for several unrelated issues because they are used to a centralised model where committing a change involves sharing it with everyone else. I think you could do something similar to git with Mercurial but it wouldn't be exactly the same. David _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
