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From: "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:08:53
Message-Id: 20060429130605.GB13685@ferdyx.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union by Dan Armak
1 On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:54:17PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
2 > On Saturday 29 April 2006 15:21, Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
3 > > The commit marked with @ is a special comit called a 'merge'.
4 > > I hope that clarifies the merge tracking part.
5 > You just described what merging is. Svn can do that too with svn merge. But,
6 > if I merge changesets from branch A to B selectively, skipping some along the
7 > way, can I later ask git to:
8 >
9 > - list the changesets remaining in A that I haven't merged to B yet?
10
11 Yes, unless you used cherry-pick. You have to do *real* merges to be
12 able to do that.
13
14 > - list the branches, from a given list, which have/haven't merged a given
15 > changeset?
16
17 It depends on how you merged the changesets, if you did it sanely, yes,
18 should be easy. If you used cherry-pick here and there I don't think so.
19
20 > I didn't mean that 'changeset tracking' is different from 'merge tracking'.
21
22 Ok.
23
24 - ferdy
25
26 --
27 Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín
28 Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git)
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