From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>,
Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
repo-discuss@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 12:42:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DhDMkmq-WCVHSMYVTTfEXNFUUzz5Cq9hQj_tGRUTj3ZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160807080857-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 08:39:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:39:49AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >> The problem with "empty commit trick" is that it is a commit whose
>> >> sole purpose is to describe the series, and its presence makes it
>> >> clear where the series ends, but the topology does not tell where
>> >> the series begins, so it is an unsatisifactory half-measure.
>> >
>> > Actually, when using topic branches the series always ends at head, so
>> > it's better to keep the empty commit where series begins.
>>
>> But that would mean that you would need to destroy and recreate more
>> commits than you would need to. If you have a five-commit series
>> (with the bottom "description" one, you would have six commits) and
>> you are already happy with the bottom two but want to update the
>> third one, you wuld have to "rebase -i" all six of them, reword the
>> bottom "description" to adjust it to describe the new version of the
>> third one _before_ you even do the actual update of the third one.
>>
>> That somehow feels backwards, and that backward-ness comes from the
>> fact that you abused a single-parent commit for the purpose it is
>> not meant to be used (i.e. they are to describe individual changes),
>> because you did not find a better existing mechanism (and I suspect
>> there isn't any, in which case the solution is to invent one, not
>> abusing an existing mechanism that is not suited for it).
>
> A flag that marks a commit "beginning of series" then?
git-notes was mentioned in this thread back in 2015, but I think it's
discarded because of the argument that's part of the cover letter was
not meant to be kept permanently. But I think we can still use it as a
local/temporary place for cover letter instead of the empty commit at
the topic's tip. It is a mark of the beginning of commit, it does not
require rewriting history when you update the cover letter, and
git-merge can be taught to pick it up when you're ready to set it in
stone.
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-07 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-10 16:28 storing cover letter of a patch series? Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-10 18:02 ` Martin Fick
2015-09-10 18:38 ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 18:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-11 22:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-04 23:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-05 15:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-05 21:20 ` Martin Fick
2016-08-05 21:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-06 16:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-07 5:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-07 9:52 ` John Keeping
2016-08-07 10:42 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2016-08-08 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-09 7:12 ` Michael J Gruber
2015-09-10 18:32 ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-10 18:46 ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 20:09 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-10 21:03 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-04 23:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-10 18:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-10 21:00 ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 21:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-10 22:20 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-12 22:51 ` [PATCH] doc: show usage of branch description Philip Oakley
2015-09-12 23:44 ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-14 12:01 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 13:24 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-15 16:06 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-15 19:10 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 14:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Philip Oakley
2015-09-11 8:30 ` storing cover letter of a patch series? Chris Packham
2015-09-18 4:03 ` Simon Glass
2016-08-08 17:27 ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-08 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-13 8:49 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-14 7:15 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 6:28 ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-15 6:38 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 6:49 ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-15 6:52 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 9:40 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-15 12:37 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 13:30 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-15 13:47 ` John Keeping
2016-08-15 20:09 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 20:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 23:01 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 20:46 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-16 3:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-16 5:26 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-16 6:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-16 15:52 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-16 21:29 ` Philip Oakley
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