Re: [PATCH] contrib/rebase-catchup: helper for updating old branches

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On 08 Mar 2021 15:38, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> > For people who want to rebase their work onto the latest branch
> > (instead of merging), but there's many conflicting changes.  This
> > allows you to address those conflicts one-by-one and work through
> > each issue instead of trying to take them all on at once.
> 
> I wonder how well this compares or complements with Michael
> Haggerty's "git imerge".

thanks, hadn't heard of that before

> > If there's no interest in merging this into contrib, then this is more spam,
> > and anyone interested can use https://github.com/vapier/git-rebase-catchup
> 
> The thinking during the past several years is that the Git ecosystem
> and userbase have grown large enough, and unlike our earlier years,
> individual add-on's like this (and "imerge" I mentioned earlier) can
> thrive without being in-tree to gain an undue exposure boost over
> its competitors, so I doubt that adding more stuff to contrib/ would
> be a good direction to go in the longer term.

i'm totally fine with "no".  thanks for the info.
-mike