linux-kernel - Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

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Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:25:50 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	arjan@...radead.org, greg@...ah.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 17:20 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> What would be really cool is if you could do the rebase thing, push
> that to a remote tree you were already pushing into and others could
> pull from that and all the right things happen.
> 
> A rebase is just a series of events, and those could propagate to
> people who are pulling from the tree.  I'm pretty sure GIT could
> support this.

Yes, this is exactly the feature I'm looking for.  It would allow the
downstream users of a rebased tree to rebase themselves correctly.

All the information about the rebase is in the reflog ... it can't be
too difficult to pass it through on a pull and allow the downstream tree
to do the right thing.

James


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