From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git-svn SVN 1.7 fix, take 2 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:51:37 -0700 Message-ID: <7vipdcesk6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <500F17A3.60307@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Robin H. Johnson" , Eric Wong , Ben Walton , Jonathan Nieder To: Michael G Schwern X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 24 23:51:54 2012 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 1Stn1C-00068x-T9 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:51:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754601Ab2GXVvm (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:51:42 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:64665 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754278Ab2GXVvk (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:51:40 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0984F82D8; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:51:40 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=Abcxys5rM2eD/RiHL9wGFXQ3rI8=; b=U9D2y/ jey7SkRhrRfXoXdavKfgquyBl4V2nuZXouYYIxd6Vej4RV2gjw7+fkdX+lZEP12K 8UABmxXcT3DcMbnDqdH38Eb5lTdy2ArTkfwkoAxXVeDVeXFAWwXuLqzpAp2C4JGc UV5If1KjZpVj14MSvSvuYHlJnhotSEW8jdbIg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=aLdNrfPVDeRkzN/BqwWc3wwuzLaJBohc G1Qn16nBT6OTNqj9YG/qoxRGxW7bS0QhB71js4IYURKWFS0/lv0qjItFLjqUUcry V6stzUmleh3vDVWMms0nic8JvPxyV4bisUBJZU38iFEfAalDCWnZfv79I9p0r9iV 9I4vRvaDpKI= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB5882D7; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:51:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C6A082D6; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:51:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <500F17A3.60307@pobox.com> (Michael G. Schwern's message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:46:11 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: BEE603C4-D5D9-11E1-B166-01B42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael G Schwern writes: > A big one is "do not blast 10 emails to a mailing list" but I gather that's ok > here if a submission needs 10 commits to be well expressed and its done via > git-send-email? And then if patch #3 needs revision I'm to do it in a rebase > and resend the whole 10 commits? Am I to think of git-send-email less as a > means of sending patches to a mailing list and more as a git transport mechanism? Yes, yes and whatever (even though I think send-email is just a better MUA/MSA when you want to send patches and isn't restricted for a _git_ transport, I do not think it matters how you look at it). > I'm trying to bust it up into easier to digest pieces. I came into this cold > without much knowledge of the problem ("something to do with > canonicalization") and no knowledge of the code. Perhaps it is a good idea to lurk and see how others submit their topics first?