On: Git is an editor, and rebase is the backspace key

[ajross]

I think it looks like a trap, frankly. Give me a good definition for "local". If I mail a patch to someone and they apply it to their tree, what breaks and for whom if one of us then "publishes" it?

I'm sure there's an answer to that question, but I'm equally certain it's not the only question. It's not that git solves all this stuff perfectly, or that it does it in the best way possible, it's that lots of problems in SCM are human communication issues that simply cannot be solved by software. One of git's virtues is that it knows its own limitations.

[tonfa → ajross]

Well there's still too many things where git doesn't help you at all not shooting yourself in the foot.

That's what I like about Mercurial (also those days I use git more than I use mercurial due to $WORK).