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From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: add a config option for --no-fork-point
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:25:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMMLpeQ5ga_e5-YeVuArYBrui+ps7HWzNjWNQgeJK3sEjo2zhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo8hiaptn.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:27 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> By the way, is the feature itself something we can test easily?  I
> think I saw the "we must interact with --root sensibly" test, but
> the actual feature not being tested include
>
>  - rebase.forkpoint set to false and then to true; does it use the
>    fork-point feature (your patch as-is would have failed this test);
>
>  - rebase.forkpoint set to false and command line says --fork-point;
>
>  - rebase.forkpoint set to true and command line says --no-fork-point;
>
> I offhand do not know if it is easy to observe it the fork-point
> feature gets triggered, but it seems that the difference in
> behaviour is big enough for you to care, so I am hoping you may
> think of a way.

This blog post describes the same problem that I had with fork-point:
https://commaok.xyz/post/fork-point/

I didn't see any fork-point tests in the current codebase, but I can
work on adding some. Do you want them in a separate patch (that would
make the most sense to me), or squashed into the rebase.forkPoint
patch?

-Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-21 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-20  4:44 [PATCH] rebase: add a config option for --no-fork-point Alex Henrie
2021-01-20 23:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-20 23:13   ` Alex Henrie
2021-01-21 22:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-21 23:25       ` Alex Henrie [this message]
2021-01-21 23:45         ` Denton Liu
2021-01-21 23:51           ` Alex Henrie
2021-02-18 23:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-20  5:10               ` Alex Henrie

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