Re: Why not rebase instead of merge?

Somebody claiming to be Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:

Here you might want to do a git rebase -i <when-you-split-from-main-branch> and squash unnecessary commits into larger ones.

I've never understood why people do this. It seems to violate the purpose of making good atomic commits in the first place. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph