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Re: Having a custom merge process (was: EWW bugs should be fixed on emac
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Having a custom merge process (was: EWW bugs should be fixed on emacs-25 branch) |
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Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:44:19 +0200 |
> From: John Wiegley <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 15:35:30 -0800
>
> >>>>> David Engster <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > gitmerge.el will detect cherry-picks through the cherry-mark. However, since
> > git is the C++ of version control, this works only 99% of the time. It does
> > not work when the cherry-pick could not be applied cleanly, since then the
> > patch-id changes. It also does not work when the same commit is also merged
> > later (see the beginning of the emacs-25 branch for an example, where first
> > a bunch of commits was cherry-picked and later 'master' was also merged).
>
> OK, that's understandable. What I'd like to avoid -- as much as feasible -- is
> having so much of a custom merge process, apart from what most other projects
> using Git do, that it becomes difficult to teach newcomers about our process.
Newcomers are told to use gitmerge.el, so how that could be a problem?
Eventually, what gitmerge.el does is invoke "git merge" to merge
ranges of commits that were selected in a semi-automatic way; see
gitmerge-apply. There's nothing mysterious or magic in that command
that I could spot; I don't even think that it's a particularly
advanced way of doing merges with Git. Just more or less standard
stuff.
> I've used Git in many scenarios, on many projects, but some of the practices
> we're using here for Emacs development I've never seen before. This simply
> makes me wonder how much of that difference is truly necessary, or is a result
> of having evolved to this point from CVS and then Bazaar.
Can you point out those practices that surprised you?
- Re: EWW bugs should be fixed on emacs-25 branch, (continued)
- Re: EWW bugs should be fixed on emacs-25 branch, David Engster, 2015/12/25
- Having a custom merge process (was: EWW bugs should be fixed on emacs-25 branch), John Wiegley, 2015/12/25
- Re: Having a custom merge process, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2015/12/25
- Re: Having a custom merge process, David Engster, 2015/12/25
- Re: Having a custom merge process, John Wiegley, 2015/12/25
- Re: Having a custom merge process, Paul Eggert, 2015/12/26
- Re: Having a custom merge process, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/26
- Re: Having a custom merge process (was: EWW bugs should be fixed on emacs-25 branch),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- EWW To Elpa? Re: Having a custom merge process, raman, 2015/12/26
- Re: EWW To Elpa? Re: Having a custom merge process, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2015/12/26
- Re: EWW To Elpa? Re: Having a custom merge process, Artur Malabarba, 2015/12/26
- Re: EWW To Elpa? Re: Having a custom merge process, John Wiegley, 2015/12/28
- Re: EWW To Elpa? Re: Having a custom merge process, Artur Malabarba, 2015/12/26
- Re: EWW To Elpa? Re: Having a custom merge process, raman, 2015/12/27
- Re: Having a custom merge process (was: EWW bugs should be fixed on emacs-25 branch), Richard Stallman, 2015/12/26
- Re: Having a custom merge process (was: EWW bugs should be fixed on emacs-25 branch), Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/26
Re: EWW bugs should be fixed on emacs-25 branch, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2015/12/25