From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cherry-pick: do not error on non-merge commits when '-m 1' is specified
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:29:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736nj2jcl.fsf@javad.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsh5gt9sm.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:54:17 -0700")
Hi Junio,
[It's been a while since this discussion, and recently I've got some
thoughts and questions about "first-parent" issues in general, below.]
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When cherry-picking multiple commits, it's impossible to have both
>> merge- and non-merge commits on the same command-line. Not specifying
>> '-m 1' results in cherry-pick refusing to handle merge commits, while
>> specifying '-m 1' fails on non-merge commits.
>
> Allowing "-m1" even when picking a single parent commit, because
> the 1-st parent is defined for such a commit, makes sense, espeially
> when running a cherry-pick on a range, exactly for the above reason.
> It is slightly less so when cherry-picking a single commit, but not
> by a large margin.
>
> I think the original reasoning for requiring "-m $n" not present,
> especially because cherry-pick was originally for replaying only a
> single commit, was because it would lead somebody to propose that
> the command should behave as if -m1 is always given (and when trying
> to cherry-pick a merge relative to its second parent, give -m2 to
> override it), which in turn encourage the 'first-parent is special'
> world-view from the tool-side. IOW, "The worldview to treat the
> first-parent chain specially is correct, because Git has many
> features to work with that worldview conveniently" was something we
> wanted to avoid; rather "Such and such workflows benefit from
> treating the first-parent chain specially, so let's add features to
> do so" was we wanted to do, and of course, back then cherry-pick
> that allows mixture of merges and single-parent commits to be
> picked, which would have made the need to do something like this
> patch does felt greater, did not exist.
>
> Now, it appears, at least to me, that the world pretty much accepted
> that the first-parent worldview is often very convenient and worth
> supporting by the tool, so the next logical step might be to set
> opts->mainline to 1 by default (and allow an explicit "-m $n" from
> the command line to override it). But that should happen after this
> patch lands---it is logically a separate step, I would think.
I think that "first-parent is special" is the way to go indeed for
porcelain, as it does make many thing easier and more convenient[*].
Is there a road-map already outlined in that direction, I wonder?
OTOH, for plumbing, it's rather keeping the original pure-DAG
"symmetrical merges" approach that seems to be the right thing to do.
[*] One example that immediately comes to mind is "git log -p" for a
merge commit. I doesn't currently (as of v2.10) show the first-parent
diff, for whatever reason. "git log -p -m --first-parent" is needed to
get the answer to most "obvious" question: what (merge) commit did to my
mainline? "git show" has its own issues.
-- Sergey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-19 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-25 12:42 [PATCH] cherry-pick: do not error on non-merge commits when '-m 1' is specified Sergey Organov
2018-06-21 15:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-22 9:16 ` Sergey Organov
2018-12-12 5:35 ` Sergey Organov
2018-12-13 4:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-13 6:35 ` Sergey Organov
2018-12-13 15:35 ` Sergey Organov
2018-12-14 2:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-14 4:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Allow 'cherry-pick -m 1' for non-merge commits Sergey Organov
2018-12-14 4:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] t3506: validate '-m 1 -ff' is now accepted " Sergey Organov
2018-12-14 4:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] t3510: stop using '-m 1' to force failure mid-sequence of cherry-picks Sergey Organov
2018-12-14 4:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] t3502: validate '-m 1' argument is now accepted for non-merge commits Sergey Organov
2019-01-03 17:22 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-01-06 14:41 ` Sergey Organov
2018-12-14 4:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] cherry-pick: do not error on non-merge commits when '-m 1' is specified Sergey Organov
2018-12-25 12:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Allow 'cherry-pick -m 1' for non-merge commits Sergey Organov, Sergey Organov
2018-12-26 22:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-29 9:10 ` Sergey Organov
2018-12-14 4:39 ` [PATCH v3 " Sergey Organov
2018-12-14 4:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] t3510: stop using '-m 1' to force failure mid-sequence of cherry-picks Sergey Organov
2018-12-14 4:53 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] t3502: validate '-m 1' argument is now accepted for non-merge commits Sergey Organov
2018-12-14 4:53 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] cherry-pick: do not error on non-merge commits when '-m 1' is specified Sergey Organov
2018-12-14 4:53 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] t3506: validate '-m 1 -ff' is now accepted for non-merge commits Sergey Organov
2019-03-19 11:29 ` Sergey Organov [this message]
2019-03-20 0:38 ` [PATCH] cherry-pick: do not error on non-merge commits when '-m 1' is specified Junio C Hamano
2019-03-20 5:09 ` Jeff King
2019-03-25 6:43 ` Sergey Organov
2019-03-26 16:32 ` Jeff King
2019-03-26 22:07 ` Elijah Newren
2019-03-26 22:20 ` Jeff King
2019-03-27 0:33 ` Elijah Newren
2019-03-27 13:54 ` Sergey Organov
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2018-05-25 12:42 Sergey Organov
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