From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Carl Baldwin <carl@ecbaldwin.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bring together merge and rebase
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 16:38:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180106213845.GD2404@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180106172919.GA17272@Carl-MBP.ecbaldwin.net>
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 10:29:21AM -0700, Carl Baldwin wrote:
> > When n==m==1, "amended" pointer from X1 to A1 may allow you to
> > answer "Is this the first attempt? If this is refined, what did the
> > earlier one look like?" when given X1, but you would also want to
> > answer a related question "This was a good start, but did the effort
> > result in a refined patch, and if so what is it?" when given A1, and
> > "amended" pointer won't help at all. Needless to say, the "pointer"
> > approach breaks down when !(n==m==1).
>
> It doesn't break down. It merely presents more sophisticated situations
> that may be more work for the tool to help out with. This is where I
> think a prototype will help see these situations and develop the tool to
> manage them.
That's another way of saying "break down".
And if the goal is a prototype, may I gently suggest that the way
forward is trailers in the commit body, ala:
Change-Id: I0b793feac9664bcc8935d8ec04ca16d5
or
Upstream-4.15-SHA1: 73875fc2b3934e45b4b9a94eb57ca8cd
Making changes in the commit header is complex, and has all *sorts* of
forward and backwards compatibility challenges, especially when it's
not clear what the proper data model should be.
Cheers,
-Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-06 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-23 6:10 Bring together merge and rebase Carl Baldwin
2017-12-23 18:59 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-23 21:01 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-23 22:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-26 0:16 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 1:28 ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-26 23:30 ` Igor Djordjevic
2017-12-26 17:49 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-26 19:44 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 20:19 ` Paul Smith
2017-12-26 21:07 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-23 22:19 ` Randall S. Becker
2017-12-25 20:05 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-23 23:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-24 14:13 ` Alexei Lozovsky
2018-01-04 15:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-25 23:43 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 0:01 ` Randall S. Becker
2018-01-04 19:49 ` Martin Fick
2017-12-23 22:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-25 3:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-12-26 1:16 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 1:47 ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-26 6:02 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 8:40 ` Jacob Keller
2018-01-04 19:19 ` Martin Fick
2018-01-05 0:31 ` Martin Fick
2018-01-05 5:09 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-05 5:20 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 18:04 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-12-26 20:31 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-04 20:06 ` Martin Fick
2018-01-05 5:06 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-04 19:54 ` Martin Fick
2018-01-05 4:08 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-05 20:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-06 17:29 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-06 17:32 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-06 21:38 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2017-12-27 4:35 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-27 13:35 ` Alexei Lozovsky
2017-12-28 5:23 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 4:08 ` Mike Hommey
2017-12-27 2:44 ` Carl Baldwin
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