programming reddit: "Bazaar blows goats"

[Jonathan Lange]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:21, Talden <talden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are some big feature/bug branches I'd want to keep certain
>> commit edges because I think they'll help explain what was changed and
>> how.  In others I really just want to hand over a single rev...
>>
>> ...hmm what's this rebase plugin do?  You certainly want a nice UI for
>> it though.
>>
>> IMHO Nothing about the history is sacred until you share that history.
>
> Some Emacs developers want simple workflows; having to do some dance
> to get a clean history is a hurdle (not a big one, but a hurdle
> nonetheless).
>

Powerful software with demanding users always requires some
configuration, and some compromises on the default.

e.g. Some Emacs users want the *scratch* buffer to be in text-mode.
Having to do some dance to get that is a hurdle.

jml