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From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
	Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Revert "Revert "Merge branch 'ra/rebase-i-more-options'""
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:58:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d06bc0-b2ee-0ae6-f22c-9850e4033d45@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2004121944590.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Hi All

On 12/04/2020 18:47, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Phillip, Elijah & Junio,
> 
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 7:11 AM Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
>>>>>
>>>>> This reverts commit 4d924528d8bfe947abfc54ee9bd3892ab509c8cd.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is being reverted to enable some fixups for
>>>>> ra/rebase-i-more-options to be built on this commit.
>>>>
>>>> This makes sense to me, but it will be only the second 'Revert
>>>> "Revert..."' commit in all of git.git and I'm curious if Junio will be
>>>> unhappy with it.
>>>
>>> Nah, there isn't much to become unhappy about.
>>>
>>> I however suspect that the alternative would certainly be much nicer
>>> and easier to understand, which is to rebuild the 7-patch series
>>> c58ae96fc4..d82dfa7f5b but bugs already fixed, instead of doing this
>>> patch to take us back to a known buggy state and then fix the result
>>> with 5 more patches.  Is that what you meant?
>>
>> After looking at the conflict resolution while merging the result of
>> applying these patches on top of the older codebase, I would have to
>> say that the approach """I've opted to add some cleanup commits on
>> top of Rohit's work rather than reworking his patches.""" may not
>> have been particularly a brilliant idea, not because the conflicts
>> arising from an older codebase are unpleasant to resolve (they seem
>> to be reasonably contained), but because it resurrects other
>> unwanted cruft we have cleaned up since then, and worse yet, it does
>> so without triggering conflicts.  For example, we'll end up seeing
>> mentions of "'am' backend", which have all been updated to "'apply'
>> backend", in the documentation, and patches [2-6/6] do not fix them.
>>
>> [5/6] is an example of one more "unwanted" thing the reversion
>> resurrects that needed to be fixed, I guess?
>>
>> The result of applying all these patches and merging it to 'master'
>> and/or 'pu' may be more or less right, as far as the new features
>> added to the "rebase -i" by the series are concerned but there may
>> be many small "unwanted cruft" we may be resurrecting with [1/6],
>> so...
> 
> I agree that it would make for a much nicer read if the entire patch
> series was simply rebased on top of v2.26.0, with drops instead of
> reverts. I suspect that 4/6 will not even become a fixup, but that the
> resulting patch is really more of an `Initial-patch-by: Rohit` material
> with Phillip as the author on record.
> 
> As to the changes, I had a brief look over them, and I have nothing to add
> to Elijah's review except to stress how excited I am about the increased
> test coverage. From my perspective, this makes the patch series 10x
> better.

Thanks for all your feedback, I'll reroll as a new patch series based on
master

Best Wishes

Phillip

> Thanks,
> Dscho
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-13 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 130+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-07 14:11 [PATCH 0/6] fixup ra/rebase-i-more-options Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 14:11 ` [PATCH 1/6] Revert "Revert "Merge branch 'ra/rebase-i-more-options'"" Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 15:16   ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-07 18:01     ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 21:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-07 21:31       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-12 17:47         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-13  9:58           ` Phillip Wood [this message]
2020-04-13 22:05             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-07 14:11 ` [PATCH 2/6] t3433: remove loops from tests Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 14:30   ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-07 14:11 ` [PATCH 3/6] t3433: only compare commit dates Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 14:11 ` [PATCH 4/6] rebase -i: fix --committer-date-is-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 15:05   ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-07 18:11     ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 14:11 ` [PATCH 5/6] Revert "sequencer: allow callers of read_author_script() to ignore fields" Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 15:06   ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-07 14:11 ` [PATCH 6/6] t3433: improve coverage Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 15:13   ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-07 18:16     ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 15:17 ` [PATCH 0/6] fixup ra/rebase-i-more-options Elijah Newren
2020-04-07 18:18   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-07 23:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 10:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] cleanup ra/rebase-i-more-options Phillip Wood
2020-04-29 10:25   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Phillip Wood
2020-05-13  3:54     ` Elijah Newren
2020-05-14  9:47       ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-29 10:25   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-05-10 11:14     ` Alban Gruin
2020-05-13  4:08     ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-29 10:25   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_free Phillip Wood
2020-04-29 10:25   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Phillip Wood
2020-05-10 11:14     ` Alban Gruin
2020-05-12 14:47       ` Phillip Wood
2020-05-13 15:33         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-13  3:54     ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-29 10:25   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] rebase: add --reset-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-04-29 19:59   ` [PATCH v2 0/5] cleanup ra/rebase-i-more-options Junio C Hamano
2020-05-13  3:57     ` Elijah Newren
2020-05-21 10:14 ` [PATCH v3 " Phillip Wood
2020-05-21 10:14   ` [PATCH v3 1/5] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Phillip Wood
2020-05-21 10:14   ` [PATCH v3 2/5] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-05-21 10:14   ` [PATCH v3 3/5] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_free Phillip Wood
2020-05-21 10:14   ` [PATCH v3 4/5] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Phillip Wood
2020-05-23 12:30     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-05-23 15:43       ` Phillip Wood
2020-05-23 15:52         ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-05-23 18:50           ` Phillip Wood
2020-05-23 23:05             ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-05-27  9:55               ` Phillip Wood
2020-05-24 16:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-21 10:14   ` [PATCH v3 5/5] rebase: add --reset-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-05-22 15:54   ` [PATCH v3 0/5] cleanup ra/rebase-i-more-options Elijah Newren
2020-05-23  8:55     ` Phillip Wood
2020-05-23  6:59   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-27 17:33 ` [PATCH v4 " Phillip Wood
2020-05-27 17:33   ` [PATCH v4 1/5] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Phillip Wood
2020-05-29  2:38     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-06-01  9:23       ` Kerry, Richard
2020-06-01 10:26       ` Phillip Wood
2020-06-01 21:03         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-27 17:33   ` [PATCH v4 2/5] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-05-29  2:52     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-06-01 10:33       ` Phillip Wood
2020-05-27 17:33   ` [PATCH v4 3/5] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_free Phillip Wood
2020-05-27 17:33   ` [PATCH v4 4/5] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Phillip Wood
2020-05-27 17:33   ` [PATCH v4 5/5] rebase: add --reset-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-05-27 17:57     ` [PATCH v4 6/5] fixup! " Phillip Wood
2020-05-28 13:17       ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-05-29  2:59         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-06-01 10:36           ` Phillip Wood
2020-05-27 21:10   ` [PATCH v4 0/5] cleanup ra/rebase-i-more-options Junio C Hamano
2020-06-26  9:55 ` [PATCH v5 " Phillip Wood
2020-06-26  9:55   ` [PATCH v5 1/5] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Phillip Wood
2020-06-26 13:37     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-06-26 14:43       ` Phillip Wood
2020-06-26 16:03         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-29 14:14         ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-07-13 10:02           ` Phillip Wood
2020-06-26 15:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-26  9:55   ` [PATCH v5 2/5] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-06-26  9:55   ` [PATCH v5 3/5] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_free Phillip Wood
2020-06-26  9:55   ` [PATCH v5 4/5] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Phillip Wood
2020-06-26 14:09     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-06-26 14:38       ` Phillip Wood
2020-06-26 16:29     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-26  9:55   ` [PATCH v5 5/5] rebase: add --reset-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-06-26 16:35     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-26 18:07       ` Phillip Wood
2020-06-26 15:04   ` [PATCH v5 0/5] cleanup ra/rebase-i-more-options Junio C Hamano
2020-07-13 10:10 ` [PATCH v6 0/5] fixup ra/rebase-i-more-options Phillip Wood
2020-07-13 10:10   ` [PATCH v6 1/5] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Phillip Wood
2020-07-13 10:10   ` [PATCH v6 2/5] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-07-15 14:27     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-07-16  8:23       ` Phillip Wood
2020-07-16 13:06         ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-07-16 15:17           ` Phillip Wood
2020-07-16 17:34             ` Phillip Wood
2020-07-17  0:25               ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-07-13 10:10   ` [PATCH v6 3/5] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_free Phillip Wood
2020-07-13 10:10   ` [PATCH v6 4/5] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Phillip Wood
2020-07-13 10:10   ` [PATCH v6 5/5] rebase: add --reset-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-07-13 15:28   ` [PATCH v6 0/5] fixup ra/rebase-i-more-options Junio C Hamano
2020-07-15  8:55     ` Phillip Wood
2020-07-16 17:32 ` [PATCH v7 0/5] cleanup ra/rebase-i-more-options Phillip Wood
2020-07-16 17:32   ` [PATCH v7 1/5] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Phillip Wood
2020-07-16 17:32   ` [PATCH v7 2/5] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-08-13 13:46     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-07-16 17:32   ` [PATCH v7 3/5] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_free Phillip Wood
2020-07-16 17:32   ` [PATCH v7 4/5] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Phillip Wood
2020-08-13 14:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-07-16 17:32   ` [PATCH v7 5/5] rebase: add --reset-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-07-16 17:39   ` [PATCH v7 0/5] cleanup ra/rebase-i-more-options Junio C Hamano
2020-08-13 14:24   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-13 17:46     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-13 19:51       ` Phillip Wood
2020-08-17 17:39 ` [PATCH v8 " Phillip Wood
2020-08-17 17:40   ` [PATCH v8 1/5] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Phillip Wood
2020-08-17 17:40   ` [PATCH v8 2/5] am: stop exporting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE Phillip Wood
2020-08-17 19:12     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-19 10:20       ` Phillip Wood
2020-08-19 15:51         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-20 15:23           ` Phillip Wood
2020-08-17 17:40   ` [PATCH v8 3/5] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Phillip Wood
2020-08-26 21:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-17 17:40   ` [PATCH v8 4/5] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Phillip Wood
2020-08-19 10:22     ` Phillip Wood
2020-08-19 22:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-20 15:16         ` Phillip Wood
2020-08-17 17:40   ` [PATCH v8 5/5] rebase: add --reset-author-date Phillip Wood

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