Re: scratch/igc as feature branch

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> - The fact that the branch is already worked with commits that will be
>> directly mergable without having to do a mega rebase afterward.  Also
>> the mega rebase would cancel all or part of the history which I find a
>> serious disadvantage.
>
> Hm, that makes me curious.
>
> Does it mean that in the end, before merging, every commit must have a
> conforming commit message? Also, there are probably many hundreds of
> commits that are not in scratch/igc at all, but only in my original.
> What's with those?

Some numbers, hope I got the git right

/Users/gerd/emacs/github/igc % git rev-list --count cl-packages..igc --first-parent
980

/Users/gerd/emacs/savannah/igc % git rev-list --count master..scratch/igc --first-parent
431