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Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint'
From: |
Robert Klein |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint' |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:05:37 +0200 |
Hi,
Oleh Krehel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Kyle Meyer <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Oleh Krehel <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Was the issue of abundant "Merge branch 'maint'" commit messages
> >> discussed before? I couldn't find a reference...
> >>
> >> It's not a big deal, really, but I personally prefer to have linear
> >> history with commits that actually do stuff. And it should be easy
> >> to switch to this style: just use the "rebase" instead of the
> >> "merge" command.
> >>
> >> Anyway, it's a small thing, and if Nicolas or Bastien strongly
> >> like the merge method I won't bring it up again. But if they don't
> >> care either way, I think it's better to start rebasing.
> >
> > While I'm all for rebasing unpushed commits, short-lived feature
> > branches, and throw-away integration branches, your suggestion would
> > frequently rewrite the history of a long-lived public branch.
>
> Why not just cherry-pick the commits from master onto maint, or the
> other way around? That would result in no merge commits.
>
> I think it should be possible to rebase two branches without having to
> rewrite the public history. As far as I understood, maint is a subset
> of master, i.e. all commits that are in maint are in master as well.
> Is that correct?
No.
I agree, the many merge commits in August/September look ugly right
after the 8.3/8.3.1 release. Maint and master will surely diverge more,
now...
Best regards
Robert
- [O] Merge branch 'maint', Oleh Krehel, 2015/09/09
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Kyle Meyer, 2015/09/09
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Oleh Krehel, 2015/09/10
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint',
Robert Klein <=
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Kyle Meyer, 2015/09/10
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Oleh Krehel, 2015/09/11
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Josiah Schwab, 2015/09/11
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Oleh Krehel, 2015/09/11
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Stefan Nobis, 2015/09/11
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Oleh Krehel, 2015/09/11
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Achim Gratz, 2015/09/11
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Oleh Krehel, 2015/09/11
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Nicolas Richard, 2015/09/15
- Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint', Suvayu Ali, 2015/09/11