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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: n-heads and patch dependency chains
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:03:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0tjpk$ktu$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 44323C52.2030803@op5.se

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Wouldn't "git commit -M -b topic", for committing to a different branch
> than what is checked out (-b) and also to the checked out branch (-M)
> have the same beneficial effects, but without the complexity of hydras
> and patch dependency theory? It would only remove the cherry-pick stage
> though, but perhaps it's good enough. Although when I think about it, -b
> <branch> for committing to another branch and -B <branch> for doing the
> above probably makes more sense.

Do you mean that you commit current state to the checked out (working)
branch, and commit *changes* (i.e. apply patch) to a different branch?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-04 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-03  7:48 n-heads and patch dependency chains Sam Vilain
2006-04-03 14:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-03 15:38   ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-03 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-03 23:55   ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-04  9:28     ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-04-04  9:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-04 10:44         ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-04-04 11:03       ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-04-04 11:47         ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-04-20 18:08           ` Jon Loeliger
2006-04-20 18:55             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-21  8:50               ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-04-04 19:00     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-04 20:18       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-05  6:34       ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-05  7:11         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-05  7:31           ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-05  7:59             ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-04  0:51 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-04 11:05 ` Catalin Marinas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-03 22:13 linux

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