From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darrin Thompson Subject: Patch (apply) vs. Pull Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:19:25 -0500 Message-ID: <1119284365.3926.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 20 18:09:26 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkOpU-0001Xc-K7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:08:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261200AbVFTQO0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:14:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261357AbVFTQO0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:14:26 -0400 Received: from zealot.progeny.com ([216.37.46.162]:54729 "EHLO morimoto.progeny.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261200AbVFTQOY (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:14:24 -0400 Received: from dhcp-2-246.progeny.com (dhcp-2-246.progeny.com [192.168.2.246]) by morimoto.progeny.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F1B636AF for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:14:23 -0500 (EST) To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org In trying to understand git I've adopted a mental model where everybody duplicates locally the remote history in which they are interested. These histories have various points in common, allowing for intelligent merging. That makes perfect sense to me, until I look at the list archives filled with patches. How exactly are these patches being generated? Is there a right-way(tm) which causes the recipient's a later pullers' histories to be intelligently handled in the future? TIA. -- Darrin