Re: [gentoo-dev] My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it)

[Patrick Lauer]

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 CVS allows you to run repoman on an outdated tree and push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 ...