From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: "Jörg Sommer" <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commit a series of patches to SVN without rebase
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:11:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080102031102.GA11711@untitled> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnfmttoo.28m.joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> > Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> >> I've a number of patches in git I want to send to a SVN repository. git
> >> svn dcommit does a rebase after each commit which makes the whole commit
> >> takes very long. Is it possible to skip the rebase? All patches are in
> >> one branch without merges, a simple chain. Is it save to use --no-rebase
> >> in this case?
> >
> > Right now, only if the changes don't depend on each other (they all
> > modify different files).
>
> May I ask you what the rational behind doing a rebase every time is? Is
> it needed? Why is it not possible to send all commits and do one rebase
> after the last one?
Rebase is done to alert the user of potential conflicts before
attempting to commit them to a remote repository. Formerly it was
done to prevent potential clobbering of upstream changes if
there were conflicts, but I think that's been rectified in recent
months.
--
Eric Wong
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-02 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-20 16:40 Commit a series of patches to SVN without rebase Jörg Sommer
2007-12-22 4:53 ` Eric Wong
2007-12-23 23:59 ` Jörg Sommer
2008-01-02 3:11 ` Eric Wong [this message]
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