--- On Sun, 4/4/10, Adam Heath <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected]
> wrote:
> > Author: adrianc
> > Date: Sun Apr  4 18:08:58 2010
> > New Revision: 930729
> > 
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=930729&view=rev
> > Log:
> > Synchronized branch with trunk. Sorry for the huge
> commit - I tried to merge only the folders I was interested
> in, but there were too many cross-dependencies.
> > 
> > 
> > [This commit notification would consist of 80 parts, 
> > which exceeds the limit of 50 ones, so it was
> shortened to the summary.]
> 
> This is where git rebase would be better.  Instead of
> a single,
> friggin huge commit, that contains a flattened view of
> everything else
> that has happened in another development tree, rebase would
> reply all
> the changes in this branch, on top of the other tree. 
> This keeps the
> history cleaner, as you don't have to deal with these merge
> commits
> going forward.
> 
> rebase is also smart enough, so that if some new branch
> gets slowly
> commited to trunk, the rebase will end up removing that
> particular
> commit during the branch's rebase.

I will look into using git, *after* I get the new security redesign merged into 
the trunk, and I get the Commons Convert project on its way, and...

;-)




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