Why not rebase instead of merge?

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 20:58:24 CET 2013


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Austin Seipp <aseipp at pobox.com> wrote:

> In fact, the only major feature overhaul/addition I can think of
> recently that was *not* consolidated into a mega patch near the end of
> development was the new I/O manager that hit base. That was actually
> branch-merged.


I merged that and I followed the typical git practice of rebasing but
committing with --no-ff to create a single merge commit so that it's easier
to find the whole feature in the history.
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