Commit 7ecc730a authored by Sytse Sijbrandij's avatar Sytse Sijbrandij

Add sentence about tools not being able to compensate for changing commit id's.

parent 74fecb49
...@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ In conclusion, we can say that you should try to prevent merge commits, but not ...@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ In conclusion, we can say that you should try to prevent merge commits, but not
Your codebase should be clean but your history should represent what actually happened. Your codebase should be clean but your history should represent what actually happened.
Developing software happen in small messy steps and it is OK to have your history reflect this. Developing software happen in small messy steps and it is OK to have your history reflect this.
You can use tools to view the network graphs of commits and understand the messy history that created your code. You can use tools to view the network graphs of commits and understand the messy history that created your code.
If you rebase code the history is incorrect, and there is no way for tools to remedy this because they can't deal with changing commit identifiers.
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