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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [bug] import revisions should have a distinctive he
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Andrew Suffield |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [bug] import revisions should have a distinctive header in their patchlogs |
Date: |
Sat, 29 May 2004 13:34:31 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.6i |
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 08:21:23AM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >Why wouldn't somebody just avoid this mess and just start a new branch?
>
> It comes down to wanting to fix mistakes. I got myself very confused
> with aba initially, because I wanted to use a particular branch name.
> So I kept trying to change history, doing it wrong, and getting bizarre
> changesets (since it was comparing against a previous timeline).
>
> The two cases I can see:
> 1. Screwed up initial import (maybe they omitted stuff or put stuff in
> that didn't belong)
> 2. Change of tagging method (Import revisions should be smaller than the
> changeset that represents every file being deleted and re-added)
>
> People are often very particular about the names they use. Tom wants
> the namespace to be accomodating to users.
From a slightly different perspective:
[Vertical lines are branches, + is a changeset]
___ (import)
|
|
+ (commit)
|\
| \
| \
+ \
| \
| \
| \
+ + (tag)
|\ |
| \___ |
| \|
+ +
|
|
|
+ (commit)
|\
| \
| \
+ \
|\ \
| \ \
| \ \
+ | + (tag)
| | |
| \ |
| \|
+ +
|
|
|
+ ___ (import)
| |
| |
| |
+ +
| |
... ...
It's all a matter of what you want the history graph to look like. "No
history" (import) is not generally useful, but there's no reason why
it shouldn't be possible.
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