[petsc-dev] does next model mess up our histories

[Barry Smith]

On Oct 2, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>   Yup. Jed is saying our histories should be terrible.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> There is a balancing act between "quality" of long-term history, utility
> of near-term history, and development effort/opportunity for mistakes.
> I personally think the sweet spot is to prefer not to rebase that which
> has been merged to 'next’.

   But this is just a fluke of our testing approach. If I had 15 machines I could test all myself and not put major broken things into next.