From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GSoC 2011] Git Sequencer
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 01:30:45 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110403200043.GA18704@kytes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301857622.3448.134.camel@lambda>
Hi Stephen,
Stephan Beyer writes:
> first, some notes on my git-sequencer 2008 branches that can be found at
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/sbeyer.git ... (Not sure if I remember
> everything correctly)
>
> I've settled to develop within the "seq-builtin-dev" branch and I
> sometimes merged Junio's "master" into that branch to catch up.
> The "seq-builtin-dev" branch is the important one.
Thanks! Jonathan told me about it earlier, and I've already started
ripping out code from the seq-builtin-dev branch :) I found your
't3350-sequencer.sh' especially interesting.
> Using git rebase -i (using git-sequencer) I sometimes remanaged the
> branch to "seq-builtin-rfc" that should represent a snapshot of a
> potential patch queue. My last rebase processes of the seq-builtin-rfc
> branch were pretty unmotivated and hence messy.
>
> I have not touched the repo very often after GSOC'08 and I stopped
> touching it (as I stopped following recent Git development) "20 months
> ago" apparently. Quite many things may have changed since then.
Okay, got it. I saw a few patches in 'master' that were based on your
work though. Some of the patches in Christian's series also refer to
your work.
> The file A_SEQUENCER_TODO_FILE (added 2009-08-03) in the repo describes
> the missing and buggy pieces to fix so that _I_ (only me) would have
> been 100 per cent satisfied with that git-sequencer.
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/sbeyer.git/blob/9e4b4d92f681a47e3d7ad2152d2391b2ab125a0c:/A_SEQUENCER_TODO_FILE
> [Some notes are also "strategy notes" to get things accepted, like the
> changes on "rebase -i -p" which are "not loved by everyone". ;-)]
Okay.
> On 2011-04-03, 22:50 +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> > * Is this a good change? Are there any forseeable issues?
>
> I want to mention an issue that I have not foreseen before: merges.
> (You need merges, for example, when doing rebase -i -p ... -p as in
> --preserve-merges.)
Ah, that's not something I thought about immediately.
> When I began, there was code in the "next" branch that added the TODO
> instructions "mark", "reset" and "merge" to do merges properly and I
> based my work on it. The original pieces by Jörg Sommer can still be
> found here:
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/sbeyer.git/shortlog/6fabd85e8a777c26f3ae8ce11cb7f4265502ea7f
>
> However, there have been strong opinions that the "mark"/"reset"/"merge"
> instructions are ugly and unpleasant to users and not even necessary (at
> least for rebase--interactive... and for sequencer, maybe, maybe not).
> Hence, the code in "next" has been rejected later.
Interesting historical note.
> During GSOC 2008 I regrettably underestimated the importance to
> communicate with the Git folks about these things. That's one of the
> main reasons the sequencer pieces did not get into master. And after
> GSOC'08 I had too little time for this... :-/
>
> Well, the merging thing is the only *real* issue I remember.
Point noted. Yes, I noticed that your sequencer was mostly
functionally complete. I'll make sure that I spend a lot of
interacting with the community.
Thank you for your elaborate note! I really appreciate it :)
Hopefully, we will have that sequencer by next year.
-- Ram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-03 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-03 17:20 [GSoC 2011] Git Sequencer Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-03 17:24 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-04-03 19:07 ` Stephan Beyer
2011-04-03 20:00 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2011-04-03 20:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-03 19:49 ` Daniel Barkalow
2011-04-04 4:06 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-04 4:54 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-04 18:59 ` Daniel Barkalow
2011-04-05 17:50 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-05 18:24 ` Daniel Barkalow
2011-04-05 18:59 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-04 4:43 ` Christian Couder
2011-04-04 5:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-05 6:23 ` Christian Couder
2011-04-05 6:46 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-04 16:57 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-05 20:00 ` [GSoC 2011 v2] " Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-06 8:11 ` Christian Couder
2011-04-06 9:01 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
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