From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Accommodate for pu having been renamed to seen
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:40:57 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2006291538500.56@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpn9o8o7p.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
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Hi,
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 02:48:37PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> >> Changes since v1:
> >>
> >> * Rebased onto master (no conflicts, so it is safe, and it is more robust
> >> than basing the patches on seen which already contains v1 of these
> >> patches).
> >
> > Out of curiosity, why would we ever want to base any patches on `seen`?
>
> Never. Even bulding on top of 'next' is discouraged.
>
> Either "prepare a merge on top of 'master' with all the topics in
> flight that you depend on, and base your series on top of it,
> risking that any one of these topics can take your series hostage"
> or "wait until these topics graduate and then base your topic on
> 'master'". I'd vastly prefer the latter, as it would become
> cumbersome if one of the topics you base your series on gets
> rerolled.
I recall having had to base a patch on `seen` (née `pu`) because it
would otherwise have needed "two base branches". In another instance, I
made a patch to fix incorrectly-resolved merge conflicts.
There _are_ occasions when you want to base your patch on `seen`,
admittedly not very common occasions.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-30 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-23 15:04 [PATCH 0/3] Accommodate for pu having been renamed to seen Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] docs: adjust for the recent rename of `pu` to `seen` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-23 15:31 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-06-23 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-23 21:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-06-24 0:46 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-06-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] docs: adjust the technical overview for the rename `pu` -> `seen` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] tests: reference `seen` wherever `pu` was referenced Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-24 14:48 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Accommodate for pu having been renamed to seen Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-24 14:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] docs: adjust for the recent rename of `pu` to `seen` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-24 15:07 ` Denton Liu
2020-06-24 14:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] docs: adjust the technical overview for the rename `pu` -> `seen` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-24 14:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] tests: reference `seen` wherever `pu` was referenced Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-24 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Accommodate for pu having been renamed to seen Denton Liu
2020-06-24 15:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-29 13:40 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2020-06-24 15:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-24 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-24 17:24 ` Denton Liu
2020-06-24 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-29 14:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-06-25 12:18 ` [PATCH v3 " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-25 12:18 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] docs: adjust for the recent rename of `pu` to `seen` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-25 12:18 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] docs: adjust the technical overview for the rename `pu` -> `seen` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-25 12:18 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] tests: reference `seen` wherever `pu` was referenced Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-06-25 16:22 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Accommodate for pu having been renamed to seen Junio C Hamano
2020-06-29 14:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-06-30 16:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-01 10:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-06-26 9:06 ` Update ProGit for pu -> seen change? (was Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Accommodate for pu having been renamed to seen) Kaartic Sivaraam
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