D3756: rebase: no need to backup rebased csets while aborting

sushil khanchi sushilkhanchi97 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 23:46:11 EDT 2018


okay, I think following the key rule of VCS would be better. Shall I update
the comment instead?

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 8:50 AM, durin42 (Augie Fackler) <
phabricator at mercurial-scm.org> wrote:

> durin42 added a comment.
>
>
>   In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3756#58937, @indygreg wrote:
>
>   > I'm unsure about this change. On one hand, the comment (which appears
> to have been added to mpm several years ago) implies that we never should
> have generated backups in this case. On the other, one of the key rules of
> a VCS is "don't eat my data." Even though we are aborting the operation, I
> could see some scenarios where someone would want a backup of the
> aborted/partially-completed rebase.
>   >
>   > @durin42: what do you think?
>
>
>   I think the paranoia is probably better overall? Maybe update the
> comment?
>
>   (I don't feel strongly.)
>
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