Hi,
I don't know how to make such a scenario work:
- two repositories: pub, priv
- priv is clone/branch of pub
- there is some constant developement both in pub and priv
- there are regular syncs with pub in priv
Problem:
Occasionally I want to push some changes from priv to pub.
Then after syncing with pub I want to get as few conflicts as possible.
Is it possible to do with git?
Thanks
Lukasz
From: Nick Andrew <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:46
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Łukasz Lew wrote:
I don't know how to make such a scenario work:
- two repositories: pub, priv
- priv is clone/branch of pub
- there is some constant developement both in pub and priv
- there are regular syncs with pub in priv
Problem:
Occasionally I want to push some changes from priv to pub.
Then after syncing with pub I want to get as few conflicts as possible.
Is it possible to do with git?
Git can do almost anything. One should instead ask "How to do this
with git?" :-)
If I understand your problem, you could solve it with git cherry-pick
and rebase. On priv, make a for-public branch from a pub branch. Then
cherry-pick the commits you want from your private branch into the
for-public branch. Push your for-public branch to pub, then rebase
your private branch.
Nick.
Thanks Nick, thats really helpful (and surprisingly simple).
I have a couple more questions:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 15:55, Nick Andrew [off-list ref] wrote:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
I don't know how to make such a scenario work:
- two repositories: pub, priv
- priv is clone/branch of pub
- there is some constant developement both in pub and priv
- there are regular syncs with pub in priv
Problem:
Occasionally I want to push some changes from priv to pub.
Then after syncing with pub I want to get as few conflicts as possible.
Is it possible to do with git?
Git can do almost anything. One should instead ask "How to do this
with git?" :-)
So I've heard, but not yet experienced it myself. I'm thrilled to try.
If I understand your problem, you could solve it with git cherry-pick
and rebase. On priv, make a for-public branch from a pub branch. Then
cherry-pick the commits you want from your private branch into the
for-public branch.
That almost works. Can I somehow split existing commits just like in git-add -p?
Push your for-public branch to pub,
then rebase your private branch.
Rebase to the tip of master? Is it needed? Ie. cherry-pick does not
remove the patch from
the master in priv.
If I now pull from pub, I will get the same change and it mereges nicely :D
Can I get away without creating for_pub branch? maybe cherry pick in
pub from priv somehow?
From: Alexander Potashev <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:46
Hello, Łukasz!
On 16:38 Sun 14 Dec , Łukasz Lew wrote:
Thanks Nick, thats really helpful (and surprisingly simple).
I have a couple more questions:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 15:55, Nick Andrew [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
I don't know how to make such a scenario work:
- two repositories: pub, priv
- priv is clone/branch of pub
- there is some constant developement both in pub and priv
- there are regular syncs with pub in priv
Problem:
Occasionally I want to push some changes from priv to pub.
Then after syncing with pub I want to get as few conflicts as possible.
Is it possible to do with git?
Git can do almost anything. One should instead ask "How to do this
with git?" :-)
So I've heard, but not yet experienced it myself. I'm thrilled to try.
quoted
If I understand your problem, you could solve it with git cherry-pick
and rebase. On priv, make a for-public branch from a pub branch. Then
cherry-pick the commits you want from your private branch into the
for-public branch.
That almost works. Can I somehow split existing commits just like in git-add -p?
It's, however, better to make more commits to not experience the need of
commit splitting.
But you can use '--no-commit' option of 'git cherry-pick' and 'git merge'
(and 'git pull' as well as 'git merge'). For example:
git cherry-pick --no-commit <sha1> # cherry-pick without commiting
git reset -- # unstage all changes
git add -p # patch update
You can also use 'git add -i' (interative mode) instead of 'git add -p'.
quoted
Push your for-public branch to pub,
then rebase your private branch.
Rebase to the tip of master? Is it needed? Ie. cherry-pick does not
remove the patch from
the master in priv.
If I now pull from pub, I will get the same change and it mereges nicely :D
Can I get away without creating for_pub branch? maybe cherry pick in
pub from priv somehow?
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 15:55, Nick Andrew [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
If I understand your problem, you could solve it with git cherry-pick
and rebase. On priv, make a for-public branch from a pub branch. Then
cherry-pick the commits you want from your private branch into the
for-public branch.
That almost works. Can I somehow split existing commits
just like in git-add -p?
This is going to sound weird to some seasoned folks, and I'm
hoping to hear better ways of doing this. But having done
stuff like this, I once wrote it up and here're my notes:
To split just the top commit into multiple commits:
* start git gui
* choose "amend last commit" from the commit menu
* unstage all files (meaning you click on the little
icons so they move from the left-bottom panel to the
left-top panel)
* pick files or hunks in files to stage and commit the
usual way
* continue all changes are committed
To split a commit that is *not* the top one:
* start an interactive rebase that includes that commit
* mark that commit as "edit" and start the rebase
* when the rebase pauses, use git gui as described above
To combine a set of commits and split the result in some
other way (meaning you have commits A B P Q C D R E S and you
want to make them A B C D X Y Z where X+Y+Z = P+Q+R+S!)
* start an interactive rebase
* move lines as appropriate (in the editor) so the
commits P,Q,R,S are together
* choose "squash" on the second and subsequent ones and
start the rebase
* (dirty trick warning) when the editor for the combined
commit message pops up, delete ALL the lines and save
* use git gui as above
* then continue the rebase
Hope this helps...
Hi Alexander,
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 17:06, Alexander Potashev [off-list ref] wrote:
Hello, Łukasz!
On 16:38 Sun 14 Dec , Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
Thanks Nick, thats really helpful (and surprisingly simple).
I have a couple more questions:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 15:55, Nick Andrew [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
I don't know how to make such a scenario work:
- two repositories: pub, priv
- priv is clone/branch of pub
- there is some constant developement both in pub and priv
- there are regular syncs with pub in priv
Problem:
Occasionally I want to push some changes from priv to pub.
Then after syncing with pub I want to get as few conflicts as possible.
Is it possible to do with git?
Git can do almost anything. One should instead ask "How to do this
with git?" :-)
So I've heard, but not yet experienced it myself. I'm thrilled to try.
quoted
If I understand your problem, you could solve it with git cherry-pick
and rebase. On priv, make a for-public branch from a pub branch. Then
cherry-pick the commits you want from your private branch into the
for-public branch.
That almost works. Can I somehow split existing commits just like in git-add -p?
It's, however, better to make more commits to not experience the need of
commit splitting.
Indeed good advice and best practice, but another best practice is to
not commit not compiling state.
My common scenario is that I code a big change in priv repository, and
after that I find that some of its parts can and should be moved to
pub.
But you can use '--no-commit' option of 'git cherry-pick' and 'git merge'
(and 'git pull' as well as 'git merge'). For example:
git cherry-pick --no-commit <sha1> # cherry-pick without commiting
git reset -- # unstage all changes
git add -p # patch update
You can also use 'git add -i' (interative mode) instead of 'git add -p'.
That's a possible solution indeed.
Now I see that the right "plumbing" I need is splitting a commit into
smaller parts and merging several commits into a larger one.
I think that would be nice functionality.
Do you know any tool that would allow such a manipulation on commits
in history?
Thanks
Lukasz
quoted
quoted
Push your for-public branch to pub,
then rebase your private branch.
Rebase to the tip of master? Is it needed? Ie. cherry-pick does not
remove the patch from
the master in priv.
If I now pull from pub, I will get the same change and it mereges nicely :D
Can I get away without creating for_pub branch? maybe cherry pick in
pub from priv somehow?
From: Daniel Barkalow <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:47
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Łukasz Lew wrote:
Hi Alexander,
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 17:06, Alexander Potashev [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Hello, Łukasz!
On 16:38 Sun 14 Dec , Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
Thanks Nick, thats really helpful (and surprisingly simple).
I have a couple more questions:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 15:55, Nick Andrew [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
I don't know how to make such a scenario work:
- two repositories: pub, priv
- priv is clone/branch of pub
- there is some constant developement both in pub and priv
- there are regular syncs with pub in priv
Problem:
Occasionally I want to push some changes from priv to pub.
Then after syncing with pub I want to get as few conflicts as possible.
Is it possible to do with git?
Git can do almost anything. One should instead ask "How to do this
with git?" :-)
So I've heard, but not yet experienced it myself. I'm thrilled to try.
quoted
If I understand your problem, you could solve it with git cherry-pick
and rebase. On priv, make a for-public branch from a pub branch. Then
cherry-pick the commits you want from your private branch into the
for-public branch.
That almost works. Can I somehow split existing commits just like in git-add -p?
It's, however, better to make more commits to not experience the need of
commit splitting.
Indeed good advice and best practice, but another best practice is to
not commit not compiling state.
In your private branches, it's actually good practice to commit all sorts
of junk. That way, when you mess up badly while trying to get it to
compile, you won't have lost your work. Of course, that means your commits
are going to need more cleanup before going public.
My common scenario is that I code a big change in priv repository, and
after that I find that some of its parts can and should be moved to
pub.
I usually end up with my private branch containing the public branch, plus
a bunch of commits that introduce: bugs, later fixed; mixed improvements;
and debugging cruft. I want to generate nice commits that are individual
improvements. I generally do:
$ git checkout -b submit origin/master (the first time, to set it up)
$ git checkout submit
$ git diff submit mixed-work
look at it for good changes, find some in file1 and file2
$ git diff submit mixed-work -- file1 file2 | git apply
Sometimes, clean up bits that aren't ideal
$ git add -i
Add the good parts
$ git checkout . (revert the working tree to the index)
$ make test (did I extract the change correctly?)
$ git commit
Write a good message, sign off, etc
$ git checkout mixed-work
$ git rebase -i submit
Often, resolve easy conflicts where my mixed-work branch introduced bugs
that I fixed later and have now adopted the fixed code
Then I repeat until I don't have any more good changes in mixed-work
(either I have nothing, only debugging cruft, or only stuff I haven't
gotten to work yet). If there's nothing but cruft, I've fully merged the
topic, and I delete the branch.
Eventually, I'm satisfied with what I've cleaned up, and I do:
$ git push origin submit:master
Also, I generally have a bunch of "mixed-work" branches, each containing
different stuff that isn't ready. I'll periodicly go through all of them
and rebase onto "submit" or "origin/master" (or, sometimes, give up on
them and delete them).
(One thing that would be nice to have is a "git apply --interactive" which
applies the user's choice of hunks, like "git add -i" adds them)
-Daniel
*This .sig left intentionally blank*
Well, I am still a beginner in git. I just switched from mercurial.
Some inline follows:
2008/12/15 Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref]:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
Hi Alexander,
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 17:06, Alexander Potashev [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Hello, Łukasz!
On 16:38 Sun 14 Dec , Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
Thanks Nick, thats really helpful (and surprisingly simple).
I have a couple more questions:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 15:55, Nick Andrew [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
I don't know how to make such a scenario work:
- two repositories: pub, priv
- priv is clone/branch of pub
- there is some constant developement both in pub and priv
- there are regular syncs with pub in priv
Problem:
Occasionally I want to push some changes from priv to pub.
Then after syncing with pub I want to get as few conflicts as possible.
Is it possible to do with git?
Git can do almost anything. One should instead ask "How to do this
with git?" :-)
So I've heard, but not yet experienced it myself. I'm thrilled to try.
quoted
If I understand your problem, you could solve it with git cherry-pick
and rebase. On priv, make a for-public branch from a pub branch. Then
cherry-pick the commits you want from your private branch into the
for-public branch.
That almost works. Can I somehow split existing commits just like in git-add -p?
It's, however, better to make more commits to not experience the need of
commit splitting.
Indeed good advice and best practice, but another best practice is to
not commit not compiling state.
In your private branches, it's actually good practice to commit all sorts
of junk. That way, when you mess up badly while trying to get it to
compile, you won't have lost your work. Of course, that means your commits
are going to need more cleanup before going public.
I started to follow your advise.
Then I rebase -i.
I found out I need more precise commit messages. :)
quoted
My common scenario is that I code a big change in priv repository, and
after that I find that some of its parts can and should be moved to
pub.
I usually end up with my private branch containing the public branch, plus
a bunch of commits that introduce: bugs, later fixed; mixed improvements;
and debugging cruft. I want to generate nice commits that are individual
improvements. I generally do:
$ git checkout -b submit origin/master (the first time, to set it up)
$ git checkout submit
$ git diff submit mixed-work
look at it for good changes, find some in file1 and file2
$ git diff submit mixed-work -- file1 file2 | git apply
But with this command we do not preserve objects identity.
I.e: when you merge with mixed-work you have duplicate changes.
Is it ok?
Sometimes, clean up bits that aren't ideal
$ git add -i
Add the good parts
$ git checkout . (revert the working tree to the index)
$ make test (did I extract the change correctly?)
$ git commit
Write a good message, sign off, etc
$ git checkout mixed-work
$ git rebase -i submit
... Ah I see, we throw away old commits anyway with rebasing.
Often, resolve easy conflicts where my mixed-work branch introduced bugs
that I fixed later and have now adopted the fixed code
Then I repeat until I don't have any more good changes in mixed-work
(either I have nothing, only debugging cruft, or only stuff I haven't
gotten to work yet). If there's nothing but cruft, I've fully merged the
topic, and I delete the branch.
Eventually, I'm satisfied with what I've cleaned up, and I do:
$ git push origin submit:master
Also, I generally have a bunch of "mixed-work" branches, each containing
different stuff that isn't ready. I'll periodicly go through all of them
and rebase onto "submit" or "origin/master" (or, sometimes, give up on
them and delete them).
(One thing that would be nice to have is a "git apply --interactive" which
applies the user's choice of hunks, like "git add -i" adds them)
I totally agree.
I would appriciate rebase --copy option, which doesn't move, but copy
the changelists like cherry-pick.
Then we could use rebase -i (with edit) instead of apply.
PS
Why after edit in rebase -i the change is already commited? I always
have to reset;add -i
From: Daniel Barkalow <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:47
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Łukasz Lew wrote:
Well, I am still a beginner in git. I just switched from mercurial.
Some inline follows:
2008/12/15 Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref]:
quoted
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
Hi Alexander,
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 17:06, Alexander Potashev [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Hello, Łukasz!
On 16:38 Sun 14 Dec , Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
Thanks Nick, thats really helpful (and surprisingly simple).
I have a couple more questions:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 15:55, Nick Andrew [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
I don't know how to make such a scenario work:
- two repositories: pub, priv
- priv is clone/branch of pub
- there is some constant developement both in pub and priv
- there are regular syncs with pub in priv
Problem:
Occasionally I want to push some changes from priv to pub.
Then after syncing with pub I want to get as few conflicts as possible.
Is it possible to do with git?
Git can do almost anything. One should instead ask "How to do this
with git?" :-)
So I've heard, but not yet experienced it myself. I'm thrilled to try.
quoted
If I understand your problem, you could solve it with git cherry-pick
and rebase. On priv, make a for-public branch from a pub branch. Then
cherry-pick the commits you want from your private branch into the
for-public branch.
That almost works. Can I somehow split existing commits just like in git-add -p?
It's, however, better to make more commits to not experience the need of
commit splitting.
Indeed good advice and best practice, but another best practice is to
not commit not compiling state.
In your private branches, it's actually good practice to commit all sorts
of junk. That way, when you mess up badly while trying to get it to
compile, you won't have lost your work. Of course, that means your commits
are going to need more cleanup before going public.
I started to follow your advise.
Then I rebase -i.
I found out I need more precise commit messages. :)
One useful strategy is to have a second shell and do "git show <hash>" to
figure out what you did in that misc commit.
quoted
quoted
My common scenario is that I code a big change in priv repository, and
after that I find that some of its parts can and should be moved to
pub.
I usually end up with my private branch containing the public branch, plus
a bunch of commits that introduce: bugs, later fixed; mixed improvements;
and debugging cruft. I want to generate nice commits that are individual
improvements. I generally do:
$ git checkout -b submit origin/master (the first time, to set it up)
$ git checkout submit
$ git diff submit mixed-work
look at it for good changes, find some in file1 and file2
$ git diff submit mixed-work -- file1 file2 | git apply
But with this command we do not preserve objects identity.
I.e: when you merge with mixed-work you have duplicate changes.
Is it ok?
Git is very good about recognizing duplicate changes in 3-way situations.
That is, merging two branches, each of which makes the same change (on a
hunk level) to a common ancestor. It'll identify this as "the branches
agree on a change" rather than "the branches conflict". Also, "rebase"
will try the 3-way merge mechanism, so it will be able to sort this out.
The interesting case is when both branches have the same logical change,
but one of them is done better than the other. When you merge these,
you'll have to select the better one by hand in a conflict resolution.
quoted
Sometimes, clean up bits that aren't ideal
$ git add -i
Add the good parts
$ git checkout . (revert the working tree to the index)
$ make test (did I extract the change correctly?)
$ git commit
Write a good message, sign off, etc
$ git checkout mixed-work
$ git rebase -i submit
... Ah I see, we throw away old commits anyway with rebasing.
Yup. The old commits are there to save us when we make good changes and
undo them before getting to a finished state. Once we reach a finished
state, we intend to throw them away.
quoted
Often, resolve easy conflicts where my mixed-work branch introduced bugs
that I fixed later and have now adopted the fixed code
Then I repeat until I don't have any more good changes in mixed-work
(either I have nothing, only debugging cruft, or only stuff I haven't
gotten to work yet). If there's nothing but cruft, I've fully merged the
topic, and I delete the branch.
Eventually, I'm satisfied with what I've cleaned up, and I do:
$ git push origin submit:master
Also, I generally have a bunch of "mixed-work" branches, each containing
different stuff that isn't ready. I'll periodicly go through all of them
and rebase onto "submit" or "origin/master" (or, sometimes, give up on
them and delete them).
(One thing that would be nice to have is a "git apply --interactive" which
applies the user's choice of hunks, like "git add -i" adds them)
I totally agree.
I would appriciate rebase --copy option, which doesn't move, but copy
the changelists like cherry-pick.
There's work in progress on a generalization of "rebase -i" that could be
seeded with the "cherry-pick" operations instead of the "rebase"
operations. I think that's what you'd like. On the other hand, remember
that you can just make a new branch based on your endpoint and rebase it
on your upstream; there's no reason that you can't "unzip" the history
past the point where the branch you're modifying was created.
Then we could use rebase -i (with edit) instead of apply.
PS
Why after edit in rebase -i the change is already commited? I always
have to reset;add -i
There's (currently) no equivalent of the index (storing the contents of
the commit in progress) for the message (and author info, etc). On the
other hand, you can use "git commit --amend" to alter the commit on top
(including the files), and you can do "git diff HEAD HEAD^ | git apply" to
get reverts into your worktree that you can add (or not add).
The common case for edit, I think, is that things are mostly correct, but
there's a wrong change; with the change already committed, it's easy to
change it to what it should be and "git commit -a --amend".
-Daniel
*This .sig left intentionally blank*
Well, I am still a beginner in git. I just switched from mercurial.
Some inline follows:
2008/12/15 Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref]:
quoted
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
Hi Alexander,
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 17:06, Alexander Potashev [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Hello, Łukasz!
On 16:38 Sun 14 Dec , Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
Thanks Nick, thats really helpful (and surprisingly simple).
I have a couple more questions:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 15:55, Nick Andrew [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Łukasz Lew wrote:
quoted
I don't know how to make such a scenario work:
- two repositories: pub, priv
- priv is clone/branch of pub
- there is some constant developement both in pub and priv
- there are regular syncs with pub in priv
Problem:
Occasionally I want to push some changes from priv to pub.
Then after syncing with pub I want to get as few conflicts as possible.
Is it possible to do with git?
Git can do almost anything. One should instead ask "How to do this
with git?" :-)
So I've heard, but not yet experienced it myself. I'm thrilled to try.
quoted
If I understand your problem, you could solve it with git cherry-pick
and rebase. On priv, make a for-public branch from a pub branch. Then
cherry-pick the commits you want from your private branch into the
for-public branch.
That almost works. Can I somehow split existing commits just like in git-add -p?
It's, however, better to make more commits to not experience the need of
commit splitting.
Indeed good advice and best practice, but another best practice is to
not commit not compiling state.
In your private branches, it's actually good practice to commit all sorts
of junk. That way, when you mess up badly while trying to get it to
compile, you won't have lost your work. Of course, that means your commits
are going to need more cleanup before going public.
I started to follow your advise.
Then I rebase -i.
I found out I need more precise commit messages. :)
One useful strategy is to have a second shell and do "git show <hash>" to
figure out what you did in that misc commit.
Indeed!
quoted
quoted
quoted
My common scenario is that I code a big change in priv repository, and
after that I find that some of its parts can and should be moved to
pub.
I usually end up with my private branch containing the public branch, plus
a bunch of commits that introduce: bugs, later fixed; mixed improvements;
and debugging cruft. I want to generate nice commits that are individual
improvements. I generally do:
$ git checkout -b submit origin/master (the first time, to set it up)
$ git checkout submit
$ git diff submit mixed-work
look at it for good changes, find some in file1 and file2
$ git diff submit mixed-work -- file1 file2 | git apply
But with this command we do not preserve objects identity.
I.e: when you merge with mixed-work you have duplicate changes.
Is it ok?
Git is very good about recognizing duplicate changes in 3-way situations.
That is, merging two branches, each of which makes the same change (on a
hunk level) to a common ancestor. It'll identify this as "the branches
agree on a change" rather than "the branches conflict". Also, "rebase"
will try the 3-way merge mechanism, so it will be able to sort this out.
I found that already. And I have to say that I am delighted.
This is absolutely splendid.
The interesting case is when both branches have the same logical change,
but one of them is done better than the other. When you merge these,
you'll have to select the better one by hand in a conflict resolution.
quoted
quoted
Sometimes, clean up bits that aren't ideal
$ git add -i
Add the good parts
$ git checkout . (revert the working tree to the index)
$ make test (did I extract the change correctly?)
$ git commit
Write a good message, sign off, etc
$ git checkout mixed-work
$ git rebase -i submit
... Ah I see, we throw away old commits anyway with rebasing.
Yup. The old commits are there to save us when we make good changes and
undo them before getting to a finished state. Once we reach a finished
state, we intend to throw them away.
quoted
quoted
Often, resolve easy conflicts where my mixed-work branch introduced bugs
that I fixed later and have now adopted the fixed code
Then I repeat until I don't have any more good changes in mixed-work
(either I have nothing, only debugging cruft, or only stuff I haven't
gotten to work yet). If there's nothing but cruft, I've fully merged the
topic, and I delete the branch.
Eventually, I'm satisfied with what I've cleaned up, and I do:
$ git push origin submit:master
Also, I generally have a bunch of "mixed-work" branches, each containing
different stuff that isn't ready. I'll periodicly go through all of them
and rebase onto "submit" or "origin/master" (or, sometimes, give up on
them and delete them).
(One thing that would be nice to have is a "git apply --interactive" which
applies the user's choice of hunks, like "git add -i" adds them)
I totally agree.
I would appriciate rebase --copy option, which doesn't move, but copy
the changelists like cherry-pick.
There's work in progress on a generalization of "rebase -i" that could be
seeded with the "cherry-pick" operations instead of the "rebase"
operations. I think that's what you'd like.
I always wanted to have system that would allow me manipulation of
patches as features.
I.e: I have one patch for feature X, one for Y, one for debugging X,
one for debugging Y, etc.
Then I would just pick some of them, work with them to create new ones.
The basic operations would be use/unuse patch, combine sequence of
patches into one (with commit messages of subpatches saved somewhere),
uncombine patch into sequence of patches.
Easy way of spliting atomic patch (diff) into several more so I can
add more commit messages.
Now this would resemble directory structure, I could copy/move/remove
patches from/to various bigger packs of patches. Merging would detect
duplicates of course.
Git took me for the first time close to this ideal.
On the other hand, remember
that you can just make a new branch based on your endpoint and rebase it
on your upstream; there's no reason that you can't "unzip" the history
past the point where the branch you're modifying was created.
I never thought about that. It works indeed.
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Then we could use rebase -i (with edit) instead of apply.
PS
Why after edit in rebase -i the change is already commited? I always
have to reset;add -i
There's (currently) no equivalent of the index (storing the contents of
the commit in progress) for the message (and author info, etc). On the
other hand, you can use "git commit --amend" to alter the commit on top
(including the files), and you can do "git diff HEAD HEAD^ | git apply" to
get reverts into your worktree that you can add (or not add).
Good idea, thanks.
BTW is it diff | apply the same as revert --no-commit?
The common case for edit, I think, is that things are mostly correct, but
there's a wrong change; with the change already committed, it's easy to
change it to what it should be and "git commit -a --amend".
-Daniel
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From: Daniel Barkalow <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:47
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Łukasz Lew wrote:
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Often, resolve easy conflicts where my mixed-work branch introduced bugs
that I fixed later and have now adopted the fixed code
Then I repeat until I don't have any more good changes in mixed-work
(either I have nothing, only debugging cruft, or only stuff I haven't
gotten to work yet). If there's nothing but cruft, I've fully merged the
topic, and I delete the branch.
Eventually, I'm satisfied with what I've cleaned up, and I do:
$ git push origin submit:master
Also, I generally have a bunch of "mixed-work" branches, each containing
different stuff that isn't ready. I'll periodicly go through all of them
and rebase onto "submit" or "origin/master" (or, sometimes, give up on
them and delete them).
(One thing that would be nice to have is a "git apply --interactive" which
applies the user's choice of hunks, like "git add -i" adds them)
I totally agree.
I would appriciate rebase --copy option, which doesn't move, but copy
the changelists like cherry-pick.
There's work in progress on a generalization of "rebase -i" that could be
seeded with the "cherry-pick" operations instead of the "rebase"
operations. I think that's what you'd like.
I always wanted to have system that would allow me manipulation of
patches as features.
I.e: I have one patch for feature X, one for Y, one for debugging X,
one for debugging Y, etc.
Then I would just pick some of them, work with them to create new ones.
The basic operations would be use/unuse patch, combine sequence of
patches into one (with commit messages of subpatches saved somewhere),
uncombine patch into sequence of patches.
Easy way of spliting atomic patch (diff) into several more so I can
add more commit messages.
Now this would resemble directory structure, I could copy/move/remove
patches from/to various bigger packs of patches. Merging would detect
duplicates of course.
Git took me for the first time close to this ideal.
Git works from the point of view of a developer producing the ideal
development history that doesn;t (necessarily) include false starts, bugs
fixed in private, and changes mixed together. Or rather, git allows a
developer to make commits again knowing the full outcome of the series.
It also works from the point of view of a maintainer who merges or does
not merge the output of developers working in this mode.
It doesn't really quite handle the work of an integrator whose work is to
manage a patch queue. I think it needs some additional tools which allow
the user do work which consists of operations like "replace this
patch/branch with a new version", "suppress this patch/branch", "reorder
these patches/branches", and the main thing: "produce a version of my
current series with conflict resolutions"
This would actually be really helpful to have explicitly represented, so
that people could actually bisect the -mm series to find the operation
that Andrew did that caused a problem to enter the series, which would be
something like adding a patch that doesn't work with other patches in the
series. Note that this is different from bisecting within the failing
state of the -mm tree, which finds where the series seen as a difference
from mainline, fails; if you know that -mm yesterday works and -mm today
fails, the difference might be that a branch merged early in the series
was updated to a version incompatible with a branch later in the series
that hasn't changed, and you'd want to finger the update rather than the
point in the series where kernels start failing.
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On the other hand, remember
that you can just make a new branch based on your endpoint and rebase it
on your upstream; there's no reason that you can't "unzip" the history
past the point where the branch you're modifying was created.
I never thought about that. It works indeed.
There's a lot you can do when branches are as cheap and flexible as git's
branches are.
quoted
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Then we could use rebase -i (with edit) instead of apply.
PS
Why after edit in rebase -i the change is already commited? I always
have to reset;add -i
There's (currently) no equivalent of the index (storing the contents of
the commit in progress) for the message (and author info, etc). On the
other hand, you can use "git commit --amend" to alter the commit on top
(including the files), and you can do "git diff HEAD HEAD^ | git apply" to
get reverts into your worktree that you can add (or not add).
Good idea, thanks.
BTW is it diff | apply the same as revert --no-commit?
Largely, although you can give the diff/apply pair paths you want to
revert, and not revert the whole thing. And the second commit can be
anything with the diff/apply pair, not just HEAD^, which is what revert
does, so it's a worthwhile generalization to understand.
-Daniel
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