On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 01:08:37PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 11:42:48 -0400
> "Theodore Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Finally, I'm bit concerned about anything which states absolutes,
> > because there are people who tend to be real stickler for the rules,
> > and if they see something stated in absolute terms, they fail to
> > understand that there are exceptions that are well understood, and in
> > use for years before the existence of the document which is trying to
> > codify best practices.
>
> Hence the "there are exceptions" text at the bottom of the document :)
>
> Anyway, I'll rework it to try to take your comments into account. Maybe
> we should consistently say "rebasing" for changing the parent commit of a
> patch set, and "history modification" for the other tricks...?
Those names sound good to me. Thanks!!
- Ted
