Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree

2005-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Hello, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: This is the kind of situation I used to have all the time when Linus was the maintainer and I was a contributor, when you look at master branch being the maintainer branch, and pu branch being the contributor branch. Your work started at the

Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree

2005-08-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
Wolfgang Denk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: external diff died, stopping at common/cmd_nand.c. Some commits could not be rebased, check by hand: 67a002cbe2b2850d76d797e679bc290a7df6 OK, I can edit the file to resolve the conflicts. But what do I do then to continue?

Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree

2005-08-15 Thread Ryan Anderson
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:02:33AM -0400, Ryan Anderson wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:35:50PM -0500, Steve French wrote: 2) There is no way to update the comment field of a changeset after it goes in (e.g. to add a bugzilla bug number for a bug that was opened just after the fix went

Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree

2005-08-15 Thread Catalin Marinas
Junio C Hamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:57:13AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Junio, maybe you want to talk about how you

Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree

2005-08-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I export those two changesets as patches, and send them on. presumably I lose the changset comments etc. Well, you can export them with git send-email and you won't be losing any comments. Yes, except the command is git format-patch. Not just

Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree

2005-08-14 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:57:13AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alternatively, use git cherry, which helps re-order the commits in your tree. They'll be _new_ commits, but they'll have the

Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree

2005-08-13 Thread Ryan Anderson
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:35:50PM -0500, Steve French wrote: Just to confirm a recent answer to questions on lkml ... 1) There is no way to send a particular changeset from the middle of a set from one tree to another, without exporting it as a patch or rebuilding a new git tree. I have

Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree

2005-08-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Steve French wrote: 1) There is no way to send a particular changeset from the middle of a set from one tree to another, without exporting it as a patch or rebuilding a new git tree. Correct. If I export those two changesets as patches, and send them on.

Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree

2005-08-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: That's correct. Same things apply: you can move a patch over, and create a new one with a modified comment, but basically the _old_ commit will be immutable. Let me clarify. You can entirely _drop_ old branches, so commits may be immutable, but