From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] git-cherry-pick: Add test to validate new options
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:38:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120417213851.GA20082@ecki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120417105604.GB11462@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 06:56:04AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:42:49PM +0200, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> >
> > It seems that I was implying a lot more than I realized. What I meant
> > was that master and empty-branch2 are equivalent for the purposes of
> > that test (empty-branch2^ also is a non-empty commit [*1*]), but while
> > master is a moving target, empty-branch2 is untouched.
> >
> for the purposes of the --keep-redundant-commits however, the target is
> irrelevant. The only requirement is that we cherry-pick a commit that is
> guaranteed to become empty when applied.
That we agree on.
> We certainly could do that on empty branch2, but theres no advantage
> to doing so,
The advantage is that I do not have to read the other tests in order to
understand what this test does, because contrary to the master branch,
they do not modify empty-branch2.
> and given that every other test attempts to cherry-pick to master, I
> rather like the consistency.
We could also consistently not use the master branch.
> > However, I just notice that empty-branch2 is also the root commit, so
> > maybe this will not work after all. But that should be easy to fix.
>
> It is easy to fix, given your clarified description above, its just that IMO,
> its not broken.
Well, I don't mind too badly if this doesn't go may way. But I hope that
I managed at least to explain my point.
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2012-03-30 19:48 [PATCH 0/4] Enhance git-rebases flexibiilty in handling empty commits Neil Horman
2012-03-30 19:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] git-cherry-pick: add keep-empty option Neil Horman
2012-03-30 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-30 21:15 ` Jeff King
2012-03-31 12:57 ` Neil Horman
2012-03-30 19:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] git-rebase: add keep_empty flag Neil Horman
2012-03-30 20:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-31 12:59 ` Neil Horman
2012-03-30 19:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] git-commit-am: Allow automatic rebasing to preserve empty commits Neil Horman
2012-03-30 20:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-31 13:01 ` Neil Horman
2012-03-30 20:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-31 13:03 ` Neil Horman
2012-03-30 19:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] git-commit-interactive: Allow " Neil Horman
2012-03-30 20:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-31 13:11 ` Neil Horman
2012-03-30 20:32 ` [PATCH 0/4] Enhance git-rebases flexibiilty in handling " Junio C Hamano
2012-04-05 19:39 ` [PATCH 0/5] Enhance git-rebases flexibiilty handling empty commits [v2] Neil Horman
2012-04-05 19:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] argv-array: Add argv_array_pop function [v2] Neil Horman
2012-04-05 20:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-05 23:24 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-06 0:12 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-06 0:19 ` Jeff King
2012-04-06 1:12 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-06 1:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-06 2:20 ` Jeff King
2012-04-06 4:19 ` Cc tags in the commit message (Re: [PATCH 1/5] argv-array: Add argv_array_pop function [v2]) Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-06 6:55 ` [PATCH 1/5] argv-array: Add argv_array_pop function [v2] Junio C Hamano
2012-04-06 7:33 ` Jeff King
2012-04-06 16:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-06 18:02 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-05 19:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] git-cherry-pick: add allow-empty option [v2] Neil Horman
2012-04-05 19:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] git-cherry-pick: Add ignore-if-made-empty " Neil Horman
2012-04-05 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-05 23:45 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-06 1:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-06 18:06 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-06 18:30 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-04-05 19:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] git-cherry-pick: Add test to validate new options [v2] Neil Horman
2012-04-05 19:39 ` [PATCH 5/5] git-rebase: add keep_empty flag [v2] Neil Horman
2012-04-10 15:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Enhance git-rebases flexibiilty in handling empty commits Neil Horman
2012-04-10 15:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] git-cherry-pick: add allow-empty option Neil Horman
2012-04-10 16:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-10 18:13 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-10 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-10 20:00 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-10 20:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-10 20:39 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-10 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-11 0:44 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-11 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-11 18:29 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-11 18:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-11 18:56 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-10 15:47 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits option Neil Horman
2012-04-10 17:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-10 18:25 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-10 15:47 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] git-cherry-pick: Add test to validate new options Neil Horman
2012-04-10 15:47 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] git-rebase: add keep_empty flag Neil Horman
2012-04-13 18:45 ` [PATCH v5 0/4]Enhance git-rebases flexibiilty in handling empty commits Neil Horman
2012-04-13 18:45 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] git-cherry-pick: add allow-empty option Neil Horman
2012-04-13 18:45 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits option Neil Horman
2012-04-15 10:42 ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-16 15:38 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-16 22:10 ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-17 10:43 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-17 15:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-17 21:37 ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-18 10:41 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-13 18:45 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] git-cherry-pick: Add test to validate new options Neil Horman
2012-04-15 9:39 ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-16 11:04 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-16 16:14 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-16 16:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-16 16:50 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-16 21:42 ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-17 10:56 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-17 21:38 ` Clemens Buchacher [this message]
2012-04-18 10:48 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-18 18:34 ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-13 18:45 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] git-rebase: add keep_empty flag Neil Horman
2012-04-15 9:33 ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-16 16:46 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-17 18:20 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] Enhance git-rebases flexibiilty in handling empty commits Neil Horman
2012-04-17 18:20 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] git-cherry-pick: add allow-empty option Neil Horman
2012-04-17 18:20 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits option Neil Horman
2012-04-17 21:45 ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-18 10:49 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-17 18:20 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] git-cherry-pick: Add test to validate new options Neil Horman
2012-04-17 18:20 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] git-rebase: add keep_empty flag Neil Horman
2012-04-17 21:47 ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-18 10:50 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-18 22:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-19 13:08 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-19 17:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-18 19:17 ` [PATCH v7 0/4] Enhance git-rebases flexibiilty in handling empty commits Neil Horman
2012-04-18 19:17 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] git-cherry-pick: add allow-empty option Neil Horman
2012-04-18 19:17 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits option Neil Horman
2012-04-18 22:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-18 19:17 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] git-cherry-pick: Add test to validate new options Neil Horman
2012-04-18 19:18 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] git-rebase: add keep_empty flag Neil Horman
2012-04-19 10:02 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-04-19 11:49 ` Thomas Rast
2012-04-19 12:19 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-04-19 13:12 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-19 18:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-19 19:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-20 10:35 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v8 0/4] Enhance git-rebases flexibiilty in handling empty commits Neil Horman
2012-04-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v8 1/4] git-cherry-pick: add allow-empty option Neil Horman
2012-04-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v8 2/4] git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits option Neil Horman
2012-04-20 19:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-20 19:56 ` Neil Horman
2012-04-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v8 3/4] git-cherry-pick: Add test to validate new options Neil Horman
2012-04-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v8 4/4] git-rebase: add keep_empty flag Neil Horman
2012-04-25 1:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-25 10:38 ` Neil Horman
2012-07-18 6:20 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2012-07-18 7:10 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-07-18 7:16 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2012-07-18 12:17 ` Neil Horman
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