Re: DragonFly BSD source repository branch, master, updated. 7fc7e029e2b0bc155f8d694a0597ea3b2c27b761

["Nicolas Thery" <nthery@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/11/29 Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>:
>> Is there a way not to push merge commits? (the first one above)
>
> What's wrong with merge commits?

Well, it kinds of pollute the history of the public master branch.  People
don't really need/want to know that I had to update my local repo to push
my changes.

> What you could have done now would have been to rebase your master onto
> "corecode/master" (as you have called the dragonfly upstream repo
> "corecode".
>
> Rebasing basically replays all your changesets onto a new position.  This
> way you would not have produced a merge.

Thanks.  I did some experiments and rebasing is what I'm was looking for.

Cheers,
Nicolas