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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Recording the date at which a change was pushed to Savannah
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 09:52:17 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8UWhv4ZQoMpbnYqPZZ9rSLbakMaY23L4+i-t9EH9NsDyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7fy8e9cm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>>> git commit
>>> git pull
>>> <merge&commit>
>>> git push

Assuming you’re doing this on local master and the pull brings in new
commits from the remote master, this, indeed, introduces a backwards
merge.

>> That's why we recommend "git pull --rebase" in this case (and I
>> actually pull.rebase = preserve in my .gitconfig).

+1.

> There might also be a way to ask Git to generate the "merge commit" with
> its two parent swapped.

Yes and it’s called $ git branch temp; git checkout master; A: git
fetch; git reset --hard origin/master; git merge temp; git push origin
master || goto A; git branch --delete temp (retroactively create a
local feature branch and merge that into fully up-to-date master).



  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-04  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-02  2:55 Recording the date at which a change was pushed to Savannah Glenn Morris
2014-12-02  4:55 ` Yuri Khan
2014-12-02  5:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-02 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-03  6:22   ` Glenn Morris
2014-12-03  6:47     ` David Kastrup
2014-12-03  7:51     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-03  8:35       ` David Kastrup
2014-12-03  9:50         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-03 10:04           ` David Kastrup
2014-12-03 14:18         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-03 16:19           ` Yuri Khan
2014-12-03 18:59             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-03 18:02           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 19:00             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-03 19:06               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 19:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-03 20:24                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 21:10                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-04  2:52                       ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2014-12-04  6:17                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-04  2:58           ` Glenn Morris
2014-12-04  3:57             ` Stefan Monnier

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