On Sunday 14 September 2014 15:42:15 hasufell wrote: > Patrick Lauer: > >> Are we going to disallow merge commits and ask devs to rebase local > >> changes in order to keep the history "clean"? > > > > Is that going to be sane with our commit frequency? > > You have to merge or rebase anyway in case of a push conflict, so the > only difference is the method and the effect on the history. > > Currently... CVS allows you to run repoman on an outdated tree and push > broken ebuilds with repoman being happy. Git will not allow this.
iow, git doesn't allow people to work on more than one item at a time? That'd mean I need half a dozen checkouts just to emulate cvs, which somehow doesn't make much sense to me ...