Re: [RFC] Stgit - patch history / add extra parents

2005-08-31 Thread Jan Veldeman
Catalin, Daniel, thank you both for your input. I'll try your recommendations (when time is available ;-) and see how it goes. Best regards, Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [RFC] Stgit - patch history / add extra parents

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Catalin Marinas wrote: Back from holiday. Thanks to all who replied to this thread. On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:05 -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: Having a useful diff isn't really a requirement for a parent; the diff in the case of a merge is going to be the total of

Re: [RFC] Stgit - patch history / add extra parents

2005-08-23 Thread Catalin Marinas
Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One factor not mentioned there is that, as things move upstream, we often want to discard a lot of history; if someone commits constantly to deal with editor malfunction or something, we don't really want to take all of this junk into the project

Re: [RFC] Stgit - patch history / add extra parents

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Catalin Marinas wrote: So the point is that there are things which are, in fact, parents, but we don't want to list them, because it's not desired information. What's the definition of a parent in GIT terms? What are the restriction for a commit object to be a parent?

Re: [RFC] Stgit - patch history / add extra parents

2005-08-23 Thread Jan Veldeman
Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Catalin Marinas wrote: Something is legitimate as a parent if someone took that commit and did something to it to get the new commit. The operation which caused the change is not specified. But you only want to include it if anyone cares about

Re: [RFC] Stgit - patch history / add extra parents

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Jan Veldeman wrote: Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Catalin Marinas wrote: Something is legitimate as a parent if someone took that commit and did something to it to get the new commit. The operation which caused the change is not specified. But you

Re: [RFC] Stgit - patch history / add extra parents

2005-08-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
Catalin Marinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the definition of a parent in GIT terms? What are the restriction for a commit object to be a parent? Can a parent be an arbitrarily chosen commit? Yes it can. GIT does not care if the commit ancestry does not make sense in contents terms

Re: [RFC] Stgit - patch history / add extra parents

2005-08-22 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Jan Veldeman wrote: Catalin Marinas wrote: So for example, you only tag (freeze) the history when exporting the patches. When an error is being reported on that version, it's easy to view it and also view the progress that was already been made on those

Re: [RFC] Stgit - patch history / add extra parents

2005-08-20 Thread Catalin Marinas
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 21:48 +0200, Jan Veldeman wrote: I've quickly reread the threads about stg commit. Am I right to assume that _all_ history was being recorded? Because this is not what I want. The person controlling the archive should specify when to record the history. True, I was

[RFC] Stgit - patch history / add extra parents

2005-08-18 Thread Jan Veldeman
Hi, I like stgit very much, but I feel there is still something missing: stgit is very handy when you use it for patches which should be pushed to mainline rather quickly. But for pacthes which won't be pushed immediately to mainline, it would be usefull to have a history of the patches itself.