Re: git merge question

2011-04-08 Thread Will Deacon
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 18:57 +0100, Jesse Barker wrote: > All these git related puns are killing me :-) Ha, it's nice to make people laugh but I find that if I hit the stage I don't feel as committed to it anymore. Ok, you might find that one a bit far-fetched but I beg to differ :) Will __

Re: git merge question

2011-04-08 Thread Jesse Barker
All these git related puns are killing me :-) On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tixy wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:16 +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > > >> one reason why my understanding of the actual problem here was a bit > > >> patchy.

Re: git merge question

2011-04-08 Thread John Rigby
git rebase -i is a god send if you find yourself needing to rebase often and it get even better when you learn about git rerere (google it) On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Dave Martin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tixy wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:16 +0100, Dave Martin wrote: >

RE: git merge question

2011-04-08 Thread Will Deacon
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tixy wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:16 +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > >> one reason why my understanding of the actual problem here was a bit > >> patchy. > > > > :-) > > _not_ intentional! (if you believe me) I don't believe you; I think you should consider

Re: git merge question

2011-04-08 Thread Dave Martin
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:16 +0100, Dave Martin wrote: >> one reason why my understanding of the actual problem here was a bit >> patchy. > > :-) _not_ intentional! (if you believe me) Anyway ... interactive rebase solved my problem relatively painle

Re: git merge question

2011-04-08 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:16 +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > one reason why my understanding of the actual problem here was a bit > patchy. :-) -- Tixy ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linar

Re: git merge question

2011-04-08 Thread Dave Martin
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > >> The problem seems to be that when a merge is committed, git references >> the merged commits in their original context: no information is >> recorded about how the merge was resolved.  The result jus

Re: git merge question

2011-04-07 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > The problem seems to be that when a merge is committed, git references > the merged commits in their original context: no information is > recorded about how the merge was resolved. The result just appears by > magic as the new tree recorded for the merge

git merge question

2011-04-07 Thread Dave Martin
Hi all, I've encountered a problem trying to unpick the history of the linaro git trees, but I don't think it's specific to us: The problem seems to be that when a merge is committed, git references the merged commits in their original context: no information is recorded about how the merge was r