[vtk-developers] Stupid git question #2

[Brad King]

pat marion wrote:
> If you rebase VTK then you are left with commits in the
> ParaView repository that refer to your old VTK commits, not the rebased
> commits.  The old VTK commits become dangling pointers, so to speak. 

Correct.  This is one of the main reasons we're going to switch to the
branchy workflow described by "git help workflows".  After that there
will be little need for rebase, unless you want to do what John is
asking (git rebase -i) to cleanup local history.

-Brad