Re: [git-users] Re: How to get a highly complex branch straight?

2017-05-02 Thread mah
Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2017 21:07:18 UTC+2 schrieb Philip Oakley: > > > I think you may have had expectations which were too high. Git can not do > magic. > All I'm asking for is to replay the already recorded history. Shouldn't require magic. > I think your project had two lines of

Re: [git-users] Re: How to get a highly complex branch straight?

2017-05-02 Thread mah
Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2017 19:30:33 UTC+2 schrieb Michael Gersten: > > > On 2017-05-02, at 10:22 AM, m...@jump-ing.de wrote: > > Now I have a branch with 4700 commits on it, but zero merges. Diff melted > down to 3800 lines. That's something I can work with. > > Go home message: merges are evil!

Re: [git-users] Re: How to get a highly complex branch straight?

2017-05-02 Thread Philip Oakley
17 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [git-users] Re: How to get a highly complex branch straight? On 2017-05-02, at 10:22 AM, m...@jump-ing.de wrote: As nobody knew an answer, so I started trying rebase strategies (-s, -X options), one by one. Using 'git rebase -s recursive -X ours ...' was the

Re: [git-users] Re: How to get a highly complex branch straight?

2017-05-02 Thread Michael
On 2017-05-02, at 10:22 AM, m...@jump-ing.de wrote: > > As nobody knew an answer, so I started trying rebase strategies (-s, -X > options), one by one. Using 'git rebase -s recursive -X ours ...' was the > only one which did something useful for this self-rebase and also worked with > a

[git-users] Re: How to get a highly complex branch straight?

2017-05-02 Thread mah
As nobody knew an answer, so I started trying rebase strategies (-s, -X options), one by one. Using 'git rebase -s recursive -X ours ...' was the only one which did something useful for this self-rebase and also worked with a mangeable set of conflicts (only ones including a file deletion), so

[git-users] Re: How to get a highly complex branch straight?

2017-04-30 Thread mah
> This sounds like you need "iMerge". TBH, I have no idea why these conflicts appear at all. As the branch exists already, all conflicts are solved and part of the repository. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To