Re: [matplotlib-devel] github pull requests: odd listings of hundreds of commits

2011-05-17 Thread Gerald Storer
On 18/05/2011 5:14 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > 3) We don't have to always push sets of changes from an original pull > request to upstream; they can be consolidated using any of a variety of > methods to form a new local feature branch with the same net effect but > fewer commits (maybe only one), and

Re: [matplotlib-devel] github pull requests: odd listings of hundreds of commits

2011-05-17 Thread Pauli Virtanen
On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:14:53 -0400, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Darned if I know what I did differently that time. (I'm sure I hit > git's "misunderstanding" feature again). > > It only seems to have affected 2 or 3 of the pull requests -- I suspect > rebasing those branches off of the current ma

Re: [matplotlib-devel] github pull requests: odd listings of hundreds of commits

2011-05-17 Thread Eric Firing
On 05/17/2011 10:14 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Darned if I know what I did differently that time. (I'm sure I hit > git's "misunderstanding" feature again). > > It only seems to have affected 2 or 3 of the pull requests -- I suspect > rebasing those branches off of the current master would fi

Re: [matplotlib-devel] github pull requests: odd listings of hundreds of commits

2011-05-17 Thread Michael Droettboom
Darned if I know what I did differently that time. (I'm sure I hit git's "misunderstanding" feature again). It only seems to have affected 2 or 3 of the pull requests -- I suspect rebasing those branches off of the current master would fix the problem, but maybe there's an easier way. Mike O

[matplotlib-devel] github pull requests: odd listings of hundreds of commits

2011-05-17 Thread Eric Firing
I suspect that the series of May 6 commits ending with a50874b711983cba505ecdb2801c4996eccf3812 has tangled the history in such a way that some (but not all) older pull requests on github like this one https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1 are showing hundreds of commits and diffs. E