From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rebasing branch with reverted patches
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:15:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAD52BA.5000206@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimbSes-B8zK2a2t1Jp1v+29HdNvqw@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/19/2011 11:09 AM, Francis Moreau wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> Francis Moreau venit, vidit, dixit 19.04.2011 09:32:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if it would be a good idea for git rebase to allow not
>>> rebasing reverted patch which are part of the rebased branch.
>>>
>>> For example I'm currently rebasing my branch 'devel' onto master. This
>>> branch have several commits and specially one called A and another one
>>> called A' which reverts A.
>>>
>>> When rebasing 'devel' branch, rebase could try to drop both A and A'.
>>>
>>> What do you think ?
>>>
>>> BTW is there a way to do this currently ?
>>
>> You can do this with "rebase -i" by removing A and A' from the commit
>> list (or squashing them or dealing with them in whatever way you like).
>
> Of course, but my point was to make this automatically...
>
That would be akin to removing in-code comments of why it's a bad idea
to implement a particular solution in a particular way, and it also
removes the capability of reverting the revert (ie, re-doing the change)
at a later time when stability can be sacrificed temporarily.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-19 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-19 7:32 rebasing branch with reverted patches Francis Moreau
2011-04-19 8:42 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-04-19 9:09 ` Francis Moreau
2011-04-19 9:15 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2011-04-19 9:19 ` Francis Moreau
2011-04-19 9:39 ` Santi Béjar
2011-04-19 10:21 ` Francis Moreau
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