programming reddit: "Bazaar blows goats"

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:47, David Muir <davidkmuir at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wouldn't the above situation happen in git or hg as well with no fast
> forward?

In git it is almost trivially worked around by judicious use of rebase.

> It sounds more like a gripe about developer slackness in writing good commit
> messages than anything else...

Yes, in part, though to be fair the examples put forward on
emacs-devel (and the defense for the bazaar way) seemed to imply that
the quality of the pre-merge commits was irrelevant because it is
"hidden history" unless you use -n0.

> Also, couldn't the above be solved by merging changes into an intermediary
> branch, so you can collapse a series of "wip" commits into a couple of
> commits to be shared?

Yes. I suppose (or hope, at least) that's what we'll eventually settle into.

    Juanma