Re: git-merge-changelog question

2009-07-02 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > And under the new. It is triggering an ASSERT failure, and I've traced it to > the fact that branch-1.4's ChangeLog has identical entries, and one entry from > branch-1.6 refuses to map back to two entries of branch-1.4 (I'm now searching > for which botched co

Re: git-merge-changelog question

2009-07-02 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > According to Bruno Haible on 7/2/2009 5:17 PM: > > Now, can you show me a crashing situation, please (with either the old or the > > new git-merge-changelog)? > > Found one. This crashes under the old: And under the new. It is triggering an ASSERT failure, and I

Re: git-merge-changelog question

2009-07-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 7/2/2009 5:17 PM: > Now, can you show me a crashing situation, please (with either the old or the > new git-merge-changelog)? Found one. This crashes under the old: $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/m4.git $ cd m4 $ git r

Re: git-merge-changelog question

2009-07-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, And with this patch, you get decent performance. $ time git cherry-pick cd172d9 Finished one cherry-pick. [master d8ac2b5] Fix description of limits on diversions. 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) real0m0.425s user0m0.300s sys 0m0.128s Now, can you show me

Re: git-merge-changelog question

2009-07-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, > Here's a sequence of steps, comparable to what I tried to use to generate > 14b8a31ef on the master branch (cherry-picked from branch-1.6). The > example below uses hashes instead of symbolic names, in case you want to > reproduce this even when the branches have advanced. Notice that