Re: [Flightgear-devel] Git rebase, not merge (for simgear / flightgear commits)

2011-12-14 Thread Gijs de Rooy

Hi James,

thanks for bringing this up (again)! Last Sunday I actualy started documenting 
the use of rebase when 
applying mere-requests: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Git#Merge_requests Would be 
nice if you (and others,
like our Git-pro AndersG) could extend/correct it ;)

In the "new" git rules we encourage people to use merge requests whenever 
possible, so we better 
document how to apply them nicely!



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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Git rebase, not merge (for simgear / flightgear commits)

2011-12-14 Thread James Turner

On 14 Dec 2011, at 09:32, Anders Gidenstam wrote:

> If your topic is freshly rebased it will just be a fast-forward merge, 
> that is, your new commits are just added to the history of master.
> Nice and linear IMHO.. :)

Yes, sorry, I didn't express that clearly at all - thanks Anders!

James


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Git rebase, not merge (for simgear / flightgear commits)

2011-12-14 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, James Turner wrote:

> Of course, when you do finally merge your topic into next, that's a 
> merge - because we do all care about recording that action in the 
> history.

If your topic is freshly rebased it will just be a fast-forward merge, 
that is, your new commits are just added to the history of master.
Nice and linear IMHO.. :)

Cheers,

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[Flightgear-devel] Git rebase, not merge (for simgear / flightgear commits)

2011-12-14 Thread James Turner
A note for people committing code:

Please don't *ever* merge from next to a topic / local branch, and then merge 
that branch back to the public next. Doing so makes the history much more 
confusing than it needs to be. Rebase your local topic branches onto next 
periodically when you wish to 'sync' up, and when you want to merge to next, do 
a final rebase, check everything works, and then merge.

Otherwise we get this:

http://files.goneabitbursar.com/fg/merges.png

When it should look like this:

http://files.goneabitbursar.com/fg/no-merges.png

Another way to think about it - merges are part of the permanent history of the 
repository, rebases are not. The rest of us don't care how many times you 
update your local topic branches from next during a branch's lifetime - it's 
not that interesting for us ;)

Of course, when you do finally merge your topic into next, that's a merge - 
because we do all care about recording that action in the history.

(People who know Git better than I, feel free to point out any errors in the 
above!)

James


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