From: Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>
To: Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim@st.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, spear-devel@list.st.com
Subject: Re: query: picking dependant commits from a latest tree
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:29:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F75DF56.10902@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120327095504.GM1806@localhost.localdomain>
On 3/27/2012 4:55 AM, Shiraz Hashim wrote:
>
> If I try to pick commits from a latest tree for a particular feature
> then what is the best way to find out all dependant commits.
>
> So for example for the commit which I want to pick there are 10 other
> commits around that file but some affect other files which themselves
> have several commits which I must apply.
>
> Is their a way to do this efficiently ?
>
You're assuming all dependencies reside in the same commits or in common
files. If the changes in a commit are dependent on the previous commit
and they do not share any of the same files then what you are proposing
is not going to catch that.
v/r,
neal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-30 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 9:55 query: picking dependant commits from a latest tree Shiraz Hashim
2012-03-30 16:29 ` Neal Kreitzinger [this message]
2012-04-03 4:00 ` Shiraz Hashim
2012-04-03 16:55 ` Neal Kreitzinger
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