Re: why not use git rebase instead of git merge in dlang repos?

2018-03-07 Thread timotheecour via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 22:28:26 UTC, ketmar wrote: H. S. Teoh wrote: I've pestered Brad about it before, but the real trouble is the Mailman software. If you feel motivated enough, pestering the upstream Mailman authors about it might actually get us closer to fixing this problem, as

Re: why not use git rebase instead of git merge in dlang repos?

2018-03-07 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
H. S. Teoh wrote: I've pestered Brad about it before, but the real trouble is the Mailman software. If you feel motivated enough, pestering the upstream Mailman authors about it might actually get us closer to fixing this problem, as it really isn't a problem on Brad's end either. It's not

Re: why not use git rebase instead of git merge in dlang repos?

2018-03-07 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 12:10:28AM +0200, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote: > Seb wrote: > > > OT: I don't know what you are doing, but you seem to be the only one > > who always creates new threads when replying. I assume you use nntp? > > Maybe something wrong with your client? > > it was

Re: why not use git rebase instead of git merge in dlang repos?

2018-03-07 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
Seb wrote: OT: I don't know what you are doing, but you seem to be the only one who always creates new threads when replying. I assume you use nntp? Maybe something wrong with your client? it was already discussed several times: this is the issue with mailing list processor: it cannot

Re: why not use git rebase instead of git merge in dlang repos?

2018-03-07 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 21:03:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 12:42:52PM -0800, Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] On the contrary, I find using merge is easier to understand, because it shows clearly individual commits within a single PR, and also a linear

Re: why not use git rebase instead of git merge in dlang repos?

2018-03-07 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 12:42:52PM -0800, Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d wrote: > There are lots of articles on this topic, eg: > https://blog.carbonfive.com/2017/08/28/always-squash-and-rebase-your-git-commits/ > (note that squashing down to 1 commit shouldn't be necessary but at > least

why not use git rebase instead of git merge in dlang repos?

2018-03-07 Thread Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d
There are lots of articles on this topic, eg: https://blog.carbonfive.com/2017/08/28/always-squash-and-rebase-your-git-commits/ (note that squashing down to 1 commit shouldn't be necessary but at least rebasing should be done) github UI also allows to rebase (instead of merge) would really