From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
Cc: acorallo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scratch/igc as feature branch
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:41:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864j95a9j9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zfqxabnr.fsf@pro2.fritz.box> (message from Gerd Möllmann on Thu, 04 Jul 2024 08:55:52 +0200)
> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: acorallo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 08:55:52 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> The commits before the merge don't need new new commit messages. So,
> >> there's is no interactive rebasing required. The commit message of the
> >> merge consists of a change log entry describing all effective changes
> >> between master and igc at that time (it describes the diff at that
> >> time.
> >>
> >> Right?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Whoever does that in the end is a poor soul.
Not really, it's a relatively simple task, even for very large merges
from a feature branch. For example, all the stuff in igc.c needs just
one entry:
* src/igc.c: New file.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-04 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-03 12:40 scratch/igc as feature branch Andrea Corallo
2024-07-03 17:44 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-07-03 19:01 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-07-03 19:29 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-07-03 19:37 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-07-04 4:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 6:19 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-07-03 22:04 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-07-04 4:15 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-07-04 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 4:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 6:14 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-07-04 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 6:55 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-07-04 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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