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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rebase --recreate-merges --keep-empty: don't prune empty
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:48:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8takm4y4.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f7194bb-f48b-e229-94ae-44c58636172f@talktalk.net> (Phillip Wood's message of "Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:03:59 +0000")

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:

> On 20/03/18 19:32, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> With or without the above plan, what we saw from you were a bit
>> messy to queue.  The --keep-empty fix series is based on 'maint',
>> while the --signoff series depends on changes that happened to
>> sequencer between 'maint' and 'master', but yet depends on the
>> former.
>
> Yes, that is awkward and unfortunate but the idea behind splitting them
> into two separate series was to have a single set of bug fixes in the
> history. The feature needed to be based on master, so if I'd had the bug
> fixes in the same series you'd of had to cherry-pick them to maint which
> would break branch/tag --contains. I'm not sure if that is a better option.

I said "a bit messy" but that was a statement of a fact, not a
complaint.  Sometimes, we cannot avoid that necessary solutions to
real-life problems must be messy.

I still think what you sent was the best organization, given the
constraints ;-).

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2018-03-22 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-20 10:11 [PATCH 0/2] rebase --recreate-merges --keep-empty: don't prune empty Phillip Wood
2018-03-20 10:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] add failing test for rebase --recreate-merges --keep-empty Phillip Wood
2018-03-20 10:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] rebase --recreate-merges --keep-empty: don't prune empty commits Phillip Wood
2018-03-20 15:38   ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-20 15:42 ` [PATCH 0/2] rebase --recreate-merges --keep-empty: don't prune empty Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-20 18:40   ` Phillip Wood
2018-03-20 19:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-22 11:03       ` Phillip Wood
2018-03-22 16:48         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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