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From: Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recommendation for patch maintenance
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:29:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D49C81.5060007@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vvcbv1grr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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Il 21/12/2012 18:01, Junio C Hamano ha scritto:
> Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I would like to have advices about some possible workflows to use when
>> maintaining a patch, that can evolve over the time (fixing bugs, and
>> applying advices from reviewers).
>>
> [...]
>> when I need to update the patch:
>>
>>   1) modify code
>>   2) commit --amend
>>   3) format-patch --subject-prefix="PATCH v<n>" \
>>      --output=mp/complete-patch master
>>   4) edit patch to add a list of what was changed
>>   5) review the patch
>>   6) send-email
>>
>> This is far from ideal, since all my local changes are lost.
> 
> Not offering any answer, but it is unclear to me what local changes
> you are losing here.  Care to explain?

I lose the history of all the changes I have made to produce the final
version of a patch.

Since for every new version of a patch I do a commit --amend, I can not
see, as an example, the changes I have made between x and y versions of
a patch.

Of course the commits are not really lost, but I have to search them
using the reflog.


Thanks   Manlio
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-21 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-21 14:45 recommendation for patch maintenance Manlio Perillo
2012-12-21 17:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-21 17:29   ` Manlio Perillo [this message]
2012-12-21 18:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-21 21:30       ` Manlio Perillo
2012-12-21 22:17         ` Junio C Hamano

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