Re: linearising TopGit forests into patch series (was: [ANNOUNCE] TopGit - A different patch queue manager)

2008-08-08 Thread Sam Vilain
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:06 -0300, martin f krafft wrote: Hm, I am not entirely following. I understand that I can get a topological list of branches, but why don't I need the diff from branch-base to branch-head? Well, if the patches can be assembled into it, why would you? Also, what

Re: commit IDs in changelog messsages (was: Introductory mail)

2008-11-16 Thread Sam Vilain
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 10:11 -0500, James Westby wrote: No, why? Short commit IDs are usually enough in Git. Why not use [f] then? The short ID may be unambiguous when you create the entry, but it's not future proof. The chances of a collision increase over time. Right, but every digit

Re: PSA: github file size limit means that some debian package imports can't be pushed to github.

2017-03-09 Thread Sam Vilain
On Mar 9, 2017 09:08, "peter green" wrote: On 09/03/17 16:05, s...@vilain.net wrote: git-lfs is your friend. And supported natively by GitHub. Thanks but it seems like a highly undesirable soloution to me. Firstly it seems to require mangling your git repo. That is going