also sprach Ben Finney bignose+hates-s...@benfinney.id.au [2011.08.02.0223
+0200]:
This comes about ¾ of the way to the history pollution done by TopGit.
I consider it very useful information, when needed. It's only pollution
if you let it be so.
That is a very wise statement, and I agree.
also sprach Ben Finney bignose+hates-s...@benfinney.id.au [2011.08.02.0229
+0200]:
1. you develop your features on branches, but you do not push the
branch heads;
Right. The feature branches stay only with the people who are
interested; usually the people actually working on each
Thomas Koch:
I had some time on my way back to think about patch bases. Is it right,
that it isn't actually necessary to save the commit sha-1s of patch bases?
It is my understanding that you could calculate them:
1. $CANDIDATE=$(git merge-base --octopus $DEPENDENCY_NAMES)
2. for each
also sprach Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro [2011.08.02.1732 +0200]:
the above algorithm is completly wrong, written in a hurry. The idea however
was to merge all dependencies in a commit and to merge this commit in the
patch branch.
This is exactly what TopGit does: a top-base is the merge of
a