From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulf Jasper Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cluttering the git tree Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:01:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87fvddzofz.fsf@web.de> References: <87h9xx360i.fsf@web.de> <87r3wyzcor.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <87k32pzs42.fsf@web.de> <87lhn5d8wt.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416510108 28254 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2014 19:01:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:01:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 20:01:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XrWz6-0005qQ-VN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:01:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36894 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrWz6-00029b-1H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:01:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60249) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrWyx-00028K-AF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:01:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrWyp-0001zo-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:01:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.11]:61816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrWyo-0001zT-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:01:23 -0500 Original-Received: from p55m-ud2 ([217.226.78.93]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LkyIj-1YQ2uy1BUT-00akPz; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:01:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87lhn5d8wt.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> (Achim Gratz's message of "Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:27:46 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:bcTXC9TbdTq1W4+08iDxTORwkLE0h4WWpIAlg7XnGyIJh0zlIoR owNOe5uqjmclJcvA0PYQSXFV2HburR6HLoBhWCKRtVZUCLpIbwR43m44jnReirhbnk1VxDx YEIxF3sRcUqKh428R2GRRWAfIVDdT03Ic+9FnCOx4IZ+yrx3FnMOvva1wqYdWCp0XX48LTa 0DXECxBVHxIEby++RBG1g== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.11 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177888 Archived-At: Achim Gratz writes: > Presumably there was some logic for you to do x, y and z in that order. > If you squash, that gets lost to anyone reading the change. If you want > to present a different logic now that you've implemented everything you > should maybe rewrite your branch to t-u-v-w, but certainly not squash > it. Unless it really is a trivial thing that should have been a single > commit all along. Yes, I was talking about trivial things that should be single commits. Sorry that I did not make that clear. I am used to do small steps, even for trivial things. Once the solution is found it easy to go back and do one regular step instead. Nobody wants to know how I have been stumbling around. Ulf