Re: Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-16 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 02:22:45AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > > > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > But otherwise it is great news to me. Actually, in that case, is it > > worth renaming it to Cogito and using cg to i

Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-15 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > > > So you want to merge someone else's tree into your committed state, and > > then merge the result with your working directory to get the working > > directory you continue with, provided that the seco

Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > So you want to merge someone else's tree into your committed state, and > then merge the result with your working directory to get the working > directory you continue with, provided that the second merge is trivial? No, you don't even "merge" the

Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-15 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > > > Is there some reason you don't commit before merging? All of the current > > merge theory seems to want to merge two commits, using the information git > > keeps about them. > > Note that the 3-way m

Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > Is there some reason you don't commit before merging? All of the current > merge theory seems to want to merge two commits, using the information git > keeps about them. Note that the 3-way merge would _only_ merge the committed state. The thing

Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-15 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think I've explained my name tracking worries. When it comes to "how to > merge", there's three issues: > > - we do commonly have merge clashes where both trees have applied the >exact same patch. That should merge perfectly well using the 3-

Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > But otherwise it is great news to me. Actually, in that case, is it > worth renaming it to Cogito and using cg to invoke it? Wouldn't be that > actually more confusing after it gets merged? IOW, should I stick to > "git" or feel free to rename it to "c

Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-15 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:13:21PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > So, I assume that you don't want to merge my "SCM layer" (which is > > perfectly fine by me). However, I also apply p