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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: sverre@rabbelier.nl, Git Mailinglist <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Subject: Re: theirs/ours was Re: [PATCH 6/6] Add a new test for using a custom merge strategy
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:38:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080729043839.GC26997@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807290123300.2725@eeepc-johanness>

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:27:44AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > So the logical sequence was:
> > 
> >   git checkout production
> >   git merge -s theirs master
> 
> To me, this suggests that they were too married to 'production' being the 
> "dominant" branch.

Perhaps. But I see this as an operation on the production branch: "pull
in master's changes, forgetting ours". In your workflow (git checkout
master && git merge -s ours production && git push origin
master:production) we perform an operation on master, which doesn't seem
as intuitive to me.

Not to mention that we might not _control_ master. What about (and I
think Sverre mentioned something like this previously):

 I forked the kernel and made some changes. Some of my changes got
 applied upstream. The others are now obsolete. Now I want to bring
 myself in sync with Linus, but I want to keep my history (either
 because the history is interesting to me, or because others are basing
 their work on it).

Then your workflow, while still possible within the local repository,
means you are munging the "linus" branch, which seems wrong. That branch
is probably even just a tracking branch, which you would not want to
build on, anyway.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-28 14:54 theirs/ours was Re: [PATCH 6/6] Add a new test for using a custom merge strategy Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-28 18:14 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-28 19:48   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-28 18:56 ` Jeff King
2008-07-28 19:09   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-28 19:26     ` Jeff King
2008-07-28 20:00       ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-28 23:27       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29  0:09         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-29  4:31           ` Jeff King
2008-07-29  4:38         ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-07-29 11:05           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 12:36             ` Jeff King
2008-07-29 12:42               ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-29  0:37       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29  5:02         ` Jeff King
2008-07-29  9:36           ` Mike Ralphson
2008-07-29 12:42             ` Jeff King
2008-07-28 19:52     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-28 20:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-28 20:10       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-28 20:20         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-28 20:24           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-28 21:16             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-28 21:35               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-28 21:39                 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-29  5:08               ` Jeff King
2008-07-29  6:35                 ` Junio C Hamano

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