From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge" Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:30:16 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <73fd69b50807151408i6a916da6p7b89fe81e65fc717@mail.gmail.com> <20080715212211.GL6244@leksak.fem-net> <487D1B3D.70500@lsrfire.ath.cx> <7v4p6qzla3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ren=E9_Scharfe?= , Stephan Beyer , Joe Fiorini , git@vger.kernel.org, Jari Aalto To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 16 04:30:40 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KIwmt-0003zl-Fv for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:30:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754219AbYGPC3l (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:29:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753520AbYGPC3k (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:29:40 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47554 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753373AbYGPC3k (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:29:40 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2008 02:29:38 -0000 Received: from 88-107-142-10.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (EHLO eeepc-johanness.st-andrews.ac.uk) [88.107.142.10] by mail.gmx.net (mp046) with SMTP; 16 Jul 2008 04:29:38 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/KoYpamS3KaUVZXcnH/xMAC3fTpM2eKSInpJqhNH 0Dj+j3jJ1qHNzK X-X-Sender: user@eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6899999999999999 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > Of course, you can name it as you want. But I thought that the name > > "rebase" applies as well: the patches are rebased from somewhere else > > on top of HEAD :-) > > Well, the original thing was not rebasing, it was patch application. You > could _perhaps_ call that "rebasing" from another tree, but that's a > stretch. Hey, I do not insist on that name. I just explained why I thought it was okay even for am. If you know a better name, just tell me, and I'll adapt the patch in no time (at least as long as I am awake). Ciao, Dscho