I love it.

Except when I have to do it.

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ugh.  Did not merge well onto my git branch.  I hate revision control. :(
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Usually this works just fine.  You rebase any pending changes to the new
> > version from the git mirror and everything is good.  If the changes
> appear
> > bit for bit, then it just works.  If there are whitespace changes or some
> > such, then you may get a conflict.
> >
> > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Another nice option is to pull from the apache git mirror and do [git
> > > diff]
> > > > to generate patches that get applied via normal SVN methods.
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is what I've been doing, but the point I've been worried about is
> > once
> > > you generate a patch from git diff, and apply it to SVN, and then that
> > > propagates
> > > back to the apache github mirror... if you merge that github
> apache/trunk
> > > branch into the branch you made the patch off of on github originally,
> > does
> > > git notice the correct SHA1 patches are already there and "just work"?
> > >
> > >  -jake
> > >
> >
>

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