Bug#959759: dgit-maint-merge(7): Mention --allow-unrelated-histories

2020-05-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#959759: dgit-maint-merge(7): Mention --allow-unrelated-histories"): > Is this what you mean: > > % dgit clone libopencsd > % cd libopencsd > % # add and fetch upstream remote > % git merge -s ours --allow-unrelated-histories v

Bug#959759: dgit-maint-merge(7): Mention --allow-unrelated-histories

2020-05-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 05 May 2020 at 12:19PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think git has pretty much always wanted --allow-unrelated-histories > for this situation. The safety catch is there to stop you > accidentally making a frankenproject, but that doesn't apply here. Actually only since 2016 (git

Bug#959759: dgit-maint-merge(7): Mention --allow-unrelated-histories

2020-05-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: dgit Version: 9.10 Sometimes needed. -- Sean Whitton From 5e248c400d5df4a4425455678b7e92513bc5eb3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 17:24:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] dgit-maint-merge(7): Mention --allow-unrelated-histories This won't come up often so