On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:28:04PM -0800, Christopher Lee wrote:
-> On Feb 17, 2009, at 8:12 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote:
-> 
-> > Yes, that's a good process - but Istvan is combining multiple patches
-> > into a single patch, which (unless I misunderstand) is not what your
-> > process does, right?
-> 
-> Hmm.  I'm assuming Istvan is tracking his own development in a git  
-> branch of his own, so presumably I could pull from his branch rather  
-> than applying the whole thing as a single patch ( = 1 commit,  
-> right?).  I tend to think it's better to keep the history of commits  
-> from someone's work, as long as they have some logic to them.  Later  
-> on we can search through the commits to find the one that's relevant  
-> to a specific question, and then see just those changes to the code.   
-> That's not possible if a large number of changes are all combined into  
-> one massive patch.  If someone is doing a major rewrite / refactor of  
-> a module, I guess it makes sense to treat that as one patch, since  
-> there are no "intermediate steps" that make sense (i.e. as code that  
-> works).
-> 
-> Obviously if the commit history is a mess there's no benefit to  
-> keeping it.

Right, and that's why I'm asking... in any case, I think the magic term
is "rebase" but I would appreciate some pointers to how Istvan is using
it ;)

--titus
-- 
C. Titus Brown, [email protected]

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