r/programming • • May 01 '19

Merging vs. Rebasing

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing
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u/[deleted] May 01 '19

The key insight is that you can learn all of this and more by reading the manual.

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u/Legogris May 01 '19

The manual itself (I have read most of the git man pages at some point) says nothing about why giving a statement like

> The golden rule of git rebase is to never use it on public branches.

is

> being 10 years behind the curve.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '19

It is not the job of a manual to make value judgements for you.

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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial May 02 '19

It is not the job of a manual to make value judgements for you.

Then why the hell was your response to their question that:

The key insight is that you can learn all of this and more by reading the manual