[FFmpeg-devel] [CHECKLIST] what is preventing us from switch to git

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 03:40:27AM +0000, Loren Merritt wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Alex Converse wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Mans Rullgard <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
> >>"Stefano Sabatini" <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> >>>On date Saturday 2010-06-12 20:23:42 +0200, Reimar D?ffinger encoded:
> >>>>
> >>>>Well, if the commit message ended up being
> >>>>"Thing ist doned"
> >>>>Then adding
> >>>>"Note: meant "Thing is done""
> >>>>is not a real improvement IMO.
> >>>>To be more specific: trying to fix any typos/grammar that make things
> >>>>not completely impossible to understand just makes things even worse
> >>>>with that system AFAICT, IMHO.
> >>>
> >>>We could have a pre-commit hook which turns the commit message to a
> >>>commit note, then every successive change to the message would only
> >>>affect the note.
> >>
> >>I vehemently object to that ludicrous idea.
> >
> >I agree with Mans. VLC, x264, gnome, git itself, and the linux kernel
> >all seem to get by without doing this.
> 
> x264 gets by, not by tolerating broken commits, not by always
> getting them right the first time, but by allowing the occasional
> rebase of origin/master even if that breaks someone's checkout.

I guess the checkouts can be fixed with not too much effort though?
Also, how are those rebases verified? E.g. how does one figure out what
exactly changed, e.g. no critical commit got lost or so?