Thanks for the pointer to that page. Lot of good info there. I'll post follow-up questions after reading/digesting it.
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Alexandru Badicioiu < [email protected]> wrote: > I think you are talking about hiding the "sausage making" ( > http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/#sausage) > Probably there's no "automated" way or some magic tool that does this. > Manageable and orthogonal diffs have to be produced by the developer. > > > > On 19 November 2014 16:15, Bill Fischofer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Slightly off-topic, but relevant to ODP development and something we just >> discussed in the arch hangout. But this captures the problem I was trying >> to articulate. I'd appreciate thoughts and recommendations for best >> practices as to how to deal with this. >> >> Say I have a repository with a master branch that consists of a set of >> files with their own commit histories. >> >> Now assume that I'm given another set of files that differ from some >> subset of the master files in varying ways. How these files came to be is >> not relevant to this question. >> >> If I do a diff between the master and the new files what I'd have is a >> single patch that transforms the master files into new versions that >> reflect the new files, however this patch may be too large to be >> conveniently reviewed/digested. >> >> So the question is this. How can I best reorganize this single large >> patch into a series of orthogonal patches that can be submitted against the >> master that combined produce the same results as the original giant patch? >> >> I believe this scenario captures the essence of the problem Ola and I >> were trying to articulate. >> >> Thanks for any insights and tool suggestions for this. >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lng-odp mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/lng-odp >> >> >
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