[git-users] Maintaining a history of a patchset?

2016-10-21 Thread Michael
Lets say you have a system where you have an unmodified upstream source, and a set of patches to get that upstream source to run on your system. As I understand it, there are two ways to deal with this in Git: 1. One branch is the upstream's release. This may be a full clone of the upstream

[git-users] Changeset not present in history after conflict-free merge

2016-10-21 Thread saucetenuto
It seems impossible, but we somehow lost a small changeset during a boring-looking merge. I can't share the repository publicly, but I'll try and show as much detail as I can. A particular merge, SHA f1b6d234f, does not have a single-file bugfix that we expected it to have. On examination,