Re: My custom cccmd

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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It might make more sense if your tool told you about such a case directly,
rather than helping you find John so that he can tell you ;-).

But that's not the purpose of the cccmd tool.

I agree that such "patch series simplificator" tool would be very
useful, but that's out of scope for this. Isn't it?

Exactly.

So you agree that you _do_ want to "discard the previous commits in the
patch series", because not doing so would mean the result would be a
half-cooked "patch series simplificator" that tries to do something that
is outside the scope of cccmd, right?

The "discarding the previous commits" happens to match what I suggested
earlier that lead to your "explored this a bit more":

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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 #2. If you have two patch series that updates one file twice, some
    changes in your second patch could even be an update to the changes
    you introduced in your first patch.  After you fix issue #1, you
    would probably want to fix this by excluding the commits you have
    already sent the blames for.

so I think we are in agreement.

Cool. Is this script something that would make sense in the contrib section?

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Felipe Contreras