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On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 07:17:26PM +0400, Jason Zaman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 12:03:29PM +0700, C Bergström wrote: |
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> > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> > > C Bergström posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2015 01:17:41 +0700 as excerpted: |
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> > >> I super don't like "merge" workflows. |
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> > >> 1) "merge commits" are confusing at best and normal tools don't display |
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> > >> and work with them as you'd always expect |
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> > > |
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> > > git log --graph, as others have mentioned. |
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> > we are not talking about the same thing. |
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> > I want to see the "diff" - not the graph. |
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> > svn diff -r 1234 |
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> > git show <hash> |
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> > show me the "merge" commit in diff format |
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> So this isn't a good comparison. You are asking for a merge commit in |
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> git and a normal commit in svn. Svn can branch but it is so complicated |
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> that no one ever does it. If you were similarly to never ever make |
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> branches in git its not a huge deal. (There are not *that* many pushes |
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> to the tree, if you look at #gentoo-commits there is plenty of time |
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> between commits.) |
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> While I personally rebase almost all of my stuff, merges are important |
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> when taking contributions. A good example would be the main linux kernel |
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> tree, if Linus were to merge everything it would be incredibly difficult |
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> to figure anything out. |
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I'm with Duncan on this. I think I understand what he's asking for... |
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I think he is asking the question, "What changed in commit <hash>". |
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If you use the hash of a merge commit with "git show", you get nothing, so |
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the merge commit is useless in terms of following changes. |
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William |
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