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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: yuri.v.khan@gmail.com
Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117980: Merge from emacs-24; up to r117522.
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:49:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k34jkcxy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lhozkd4l.fsf@gnu.org>

> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:45:14 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > * Imagine a mergy graph on the branch being cherry-picked from. How do
> > you revert that mergy clump? What if there are merges from that into
> > the current branch?
> > 
> > ---o---o---o---o---o---o A
> >     \     /
> >      o---o---o---o B
> >       \     /
> >        o---o
> 
> Well, figure it out, and you get my thumbs-up!

Btw, it's a bit ironic that while there's a lot of pressure to rebase
branches instead of merging them, when these issues are discussed,
suddenly all kind of complex DAGs pop up all over the place.  If
rebasing is the word of the day, then you will almost never see such
DAGs.




  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1XYpeB-0002D6-5f@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2014-09-30 15:56 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117980: Merge from emacs-24; up to r117522 Stefan Monnier
2014-09-30 16:23   ` Bill Wohler
2014-09-30 16:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 18:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-01  2:52       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01 14:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-01 15:22           ` Yuri Khan
2014-10-01 15:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-01 15:49               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-10-02  1:48                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01 17:44           ` Stefan Monnier

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