From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yaroslav Halchenko Subject: Re: 'next'ed --allow-unrelated-histories could cause lots of grief Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:36:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20160421203606.GM23764@onerussian.com> References: <20160421161043.GK7907@onerussian.com> <20160421185528.GJ23764@onerussian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Benjamin Poldrack , Joey Hess , Linus Torvalds To: Git Gurus hangout X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 21 22:36:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1atLKh-0008RO-9G for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:36:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752215AbcDUUgK (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:36:10 -0400 Received: from washoe.dartmouth.edu ([129.170.30.229]:54500 "EHLO smtp.onerussian.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752209AbcDUUgJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:36:09 -0400 Received: from smtp.onerussian.com ([192.168.100.6] helo=washoe.onerussian.com) by smtp.onerussian.com with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1atLKY-0002ug-Q9; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:36:06 -0400 Received: from yoh by washoe.onerussian.com with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1atLKY-0002ub-G4; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:36:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-URL: http://www.onerussian.com X-Image-Url: http://www.onerussian.com/img/yoh.png X-PGP-Key: http://www.onerussian.com/gpg-yoh.asc X-fingerprint: C5B9 05F0 E8D9 FD96 68FF 366F A2DE 2350 62DA 33FA User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.100.6 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: git@vger.kernel.org, benjaminpoldrack@gmail.com, id@joeyh.name, torvalds@linux-foundation.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: yoh@onerussian.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on smtp.onerussian.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> It is not very productive to make such an emotional statement > >> without substantiating _why_ a merge that adds a new root, which was > >> declared in the thread above as "crap" (in the context of the kernel > >> project), > > Sorry if my statement sounded too emotional ;) I will outline some of > > the use-cases below. > Thanks. Emotional is fine, as long as you _also_ have useful > information. Gotcha: I will follow "emotional + useful == fine" advice closer next time ;) Thank you a lot for the suggested patch with the env variable workaround! -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik