Re: Why not rebase instead of merge?

On 22 Feb 2013, at 17:50, Geoffrey Mainland wrote:

I don't want to bike shed, but the prevalence of empty merge commits in the repo seems both undesirable and avoidable. I always rebase my work instead of merge. Is there a reason this is not standard practice in the repo? It certainly makes for a nicer history.

I guess because rebasing means actually rewriting history. Which is undesirable in itself. Once commits have been pushed out, you should never rebase, afaik. Regards, -- Andy