[plt-dev] pushes & pulls & building

John Clements wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2010, at 11:31 AM, sstrickl at ccs.neu.edu wrote:
> 
>> The story for rebasing isn't quite as clear-cut as I presented if
>> you're pushing out of a clone, because you'll also have to fix the
>> history on your regular repo via a similar rebase when you update that.
>> So I wouldn't suggest it for people until you understand the issues
>> involved.
> 
> Ambient git-related stress alert level color: #EE1111

+1

Perhaps it's because we're still working out how to do things, but git 
practice seems to be at war with its data model. Branches aren't for 
separate branches of development; we should use separate repositories 
instead. Rebasing* seems to be about ignoring git's natural handling of 
merges by making it emulate a really-hard-to-use variant of subversion.

Can anyone explain, succinctly, what's going on?

Ryan


* The name suggests the question: Is git on crack?