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From: Lin Mac <mkl0301@gmail.com>
To: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to move a big branches to a new base?
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:34:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10d816431003040134j103c567if10aacf0fa10701f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce651003021954o1411efd2i1a1f26e9b8ed5d54@mail.gmail.com>

2010/3/3 John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>:
> I tend to keep my branches as small as possible - a few commits at
> most.  And avoid merges like the plague.  This seems to work pretty
> well.
> Remember you can squash your commits together to keep the branches
> clean and well-ordered.
squash is a powerful tools, but doens't help much in this situation.

In other word, one have to prevent a branch to becoming a tree.
Does it worth to have a new tool for such situation?

Best Regard,
Mac Lin

      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-04  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26  3:18 How to move a big branches to a new base? Lin Mac
2010-03-03  3:17 ` Lin Mac
2010-03-03  3:54 ` John Tapsell
2010-03-04  9:34   ` Lin Mac [this message]

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