Forwarding Attila's message here, because it wasn't sent to bug-guix, so it may not have reached some of you and won't show up in the issue tracker.
As far as I can tell, this is exactly what the 'rebase' approach mentioned upthread would look like in practice. As mentioned, it has the problem of having to bump the introduction every time, and I've written about the security aspects of this (beginning of [1]). Also, as Attila notes, it's burdensome. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2025-01/msg00135.html -------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:15:44 +0000 To: 45mg <45mg.wri...@gmail.com> From: Attila Lendvai <att...@lendvai.name> Cc: Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@lease-up.com>, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>, help-g...@gnu.org, guix-de...@gnu.org Subject: Re: Non-committers can't keep authenticated forks updated i haven't read the entire thread [sorry], but with that in mind here's how i'm solving this: i have various branches where i keep my not-yet-merged work. i also have a script that creates/overwrites a branch (called 'attila', starting at the tag 'attila-baseline') and cherry picks everything into it. i sometimes `git tag -f` the 'attila-baseline' tag to pick a new baseline. then i update my intro commit hash wherever i want to pull my rebased/cherry-picked changes (this is a several machines setup, and yes, it's burdensome). when a cherry pick fails, then i cancel the script, rebase the problematic branch on 'attila-baseline', and restart the script pasted below. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? […] Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!” — John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018), Teacher of the Year, both in New York City and State, multiple times #!/usr/bin/env bash BRANCHES="kludges ui-warnings print-branch-name" BRANCHES+=" shepherd-guix-side" set -e initial_branch=$(git branch --show-current) git rebase attila-baseline attila-initial-commit git checkout attila git reset --hard attila-baseline git pull . attila-initial-commit for branch in ${BRANCHES}; do echo "*** Processing branch ${branch}" #git rebase attila-baseline $branch git cherry-pick attila-baseline..$branch done #git checkout $initial_branch git -c pager.log=false log --pretty=oneline attila-initial-commit~1..attila-initial-commit -------------------- End of forwarded message --------------------
