Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-13 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 12 May 2014 14:47:13 John Ralls wrote: On May 8, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: You're welcome. I was too curious to let it pass and it was a good opportunity to learn something about git merge in the process. The only actual damage seems to

Re: GnuCash at Open Help?

2014-05-13 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 09 May 2014 18:18:57 Wm Tarr wrote: On 07/05/2014 22:56, John Ralls wrote: On May 7, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if you're the right person to talk to about user help in GnuCash (documentation, mailing lists and

Re: GnuCash at Open Help?

2014-05-13 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 7 May 2014 22:56, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: On May 7, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if you're the right person to talk to about user help in GnuCash (documentation, mailing lists and other forms), so I would appreciate

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-13 Thread John Ralls
On May 13, 2014, at 3:53 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Monday 12 May 2014 14:47:13 John Ralls wrote: On May 8, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: You're welcome. I was too curious to let it pass and it was a good opportunity to learn

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-13 Thread Mike Alexander
On May 13, 2014, at 11:47 AM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: Yeah, it would be silly to merge after every commit. One strategy might be to frequently merge from master and then revert the merge if there are no conflicts. ISTM that relying on rerere in the face of ongoing development

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-13 Thread John Ralls
On May 13, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: On May 13, 2014, at 11:47 AM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: Yeah, it would be silly to merge after every commit. One strategy might be to frequently merge from master and then revert the merge if there are no

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-13 Thread Colin Law
On 13 May 2014 18:39, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: ... In the other direction, I think that once a topic branch is merged to master it should be abandoned (unless it is used to fix bugs in the stuff that was just merged). A new topic branch should be created for subsequent changes,

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-13 Thread Colin Law
On 13 May 2014 21:09, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: On May 13, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: On May 13, 2014, at 11:47 AM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: Yeah, it would be silly to merge after every commit. One strategy might be to frequently merge

Re: Building on Windows from scratch, enable-python and some install-impl.sh vs custom.sh suggestions

2014-05-13 Thread Wm Tarr
On 10/05/2014 10:36, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 09 May 2014 16:51:06 Wm Tarr wrote: I'm working my way through getting python enabled with Windows from scratch. Great ! Will you document your success ? When it happens, definitely. Made a lot of progress today, I can do an error free

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-13 Thread Mike Alexander
--On May 13, 2014 9:17:58 PM +0100 Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: It’s not. I see no reason to abandon a branch just because it’s merged into master, and if you really have a long-running branch where you do all of your work, neither do you. It won’t avoid the ladder look, either. There

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-13 Thread John Ralls
On May 13, 2014, at 9:01 PM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: --On May 13, 2014 9:17:58 PM +0100 Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: It’s not. I see no reason to abandon a branch just because it’s merged into master, and if you really have a long-running branch where you do all of your

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-13 Thread Mike Alexander
--On May 13, 2014 9:35:58 PM -0700 John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: That's the SVN way. We discussed this back in March [1] and decided that we're not going to do that anymore. If you want to revisit that you need a better argument than that's the way I've always done it, considering that