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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
To: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd merge behaviour involving reverts
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:30:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812181930.43782.bss@iguanasuicide.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229642734.5770.25.camel@rotwang.fnordora.org>

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On Thursday 2008 December 18 17:25:34 Alan wrote:
> Here is my situation...
>
> I have a master branch.  We have a branch off of that that some
> developers are doing work on.  They claim it is ready. We merge it into
> the master branch.  It breaks something so we revert the merge.  They
> make changes to the code.  they get it to a point where they say it is
> ok and we merge again.
>
> What am i doing wrong here?

Don't do tests on the master branch.  Or at least, do as little as possible.  Also, try not to revert merges.  Depending on your workflow and team synamics it might be easier to rewrite history than wrangle reverts of a merge commit.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-19  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18 23:25 Odd merge behaviour involving reverts Alan
2008-12-18 23:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-19  0:11   ` Alan
2008-12-19  0:21     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-19  0:35       ` Alan
2008-12-19  0:46         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-19  3:44   ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-12-19  4:01     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-19  4:18       ` Jay Soffian
2008-12-19  4:23         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-19  5:24       ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-12-19  8:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-19 21:45       ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-12-19 23:05         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-19 23:12           ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-12-19 23:51             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-19  1:30 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [this message]

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