Re: linearising TopGit forests into patch series (was: [ANNOUNCE] TopGit - A different patch queue manager)

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 19:06, martin f krafft [off-list ref] wrote:

also sprach Bert Wesarg [off-list ref] [2008.08.07.1658 -0300]:

quoted

Should be doable, I think. At least you can get a topological sorted
list of the TopGit branches (with git show-branch --topo-order <list
of TopGit-branches>). But than it get complicated, because you don't
need the diff from branch-base to branch-head, this would only work
for a single dependent list of topic branches.

Hm, I am not entirely following. I understand that I can get
a topological list of branches, but why don't I need the diff from
branch-base to branch-head?

branch-base is a merge of all dependent branches, and if there are
more than one you need probably other diffs to get to this merged
branch, than the simple base..head of these branches.

Also, what happens if branches cross-merge?