Re: rebase destroys branches

2013-03-05 Thread Philip Oakley
s. -Original Message- From: Philip Oakley [mailto:philipoak...@iee.org] Sent: Tuesday, 5 March 2013 12:44 To: Gene Thomas [DATACOM]; Git List Subject: Re: rebase destroys branches From: "Gene Thomas [DATACOM]" Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 11:06 PM Hello, I am evaluating git for use in

Re: rebase destroys branches

2013-03-04 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:05:32PM +1300, Gene Thomas [DATACOM] wrote: > > >The original branch is not 'destroyed', rather the pointer to the previous > >tip is within the logs. > > Is that the 'git log' log or internal logs? Are you sure? There doesn't > appear to be a way to checkout that ti

RE: rebase destroys branches

2013-03-04 Thread Gene Thomas [DATACOM]
COM]; Git List Subject: Re: rebase destroys branches From: "Gene Thomas [DATACOM]" Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 11:06 PM >Hello, >I am evaluating git for use in a company. Please correct if I am wrong. >I am concerned that an inexperienced developer could mistakenly rebase >branch

Re: rebase destroys branches

2013-03-04 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Gene Thomas [DATACOM]" Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 11:06 PM Hello, I am evaluating git for use in a company. Please correct if I am wrong. I am concerned that an inexperienced developer could mistakenly rebase branches, destroying the original branch. The original branch is not 'destro