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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Opinions on bug fix organisation
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:38:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070516213819.GT3141@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705162220.15417.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is your preference when, for example, you have already merged a 
> topic to next but then a bug fix appears?
> 
>  * -- * -- * -- M -- F         * -- * -- * -- M -- m (next)
>                /        or                   /    /
>     B -- * -- *                   B -- * -- * -- F (topic)
> 
> F is certainly most appropriate to be on the topic branch, but we create 
> a perhaps excessively verbose extra merge, m.

Look at the history of the next branch; the diagram on the right is
exactly what Junio does.  When topic finally graduates to master,
only F is merged to master, making master's own history not show
that "verbose extra merge" m.  Or M really for that matter, as
master gets its own M'.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-16 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-16 10:38 Opinions on bug fix organisation Andy Parkins
2007-05-16 14:46 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-05-16 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-16 21:20   ` Andy Parkins
2007-05-16 21:38     ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-05-18  8:11     ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-16 21:51 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-18 19:50 ` Jan Hudec

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