TopGit: problem with patch series generation

Bert Wesarg bert.wesarg at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 12 18:54:00 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 18:25, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:18 PM, martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> wrote:
>> As I am packaging TopGit for Debian, I encountered
>> the situation that two branches conflict with each other (they
>> change the same line), but there is no dependency between the
>> branches. Thus, when I squash the branches into a series, the
>> resulting patches will not apply (they both change the same original
>> line to something else).
>
> Isn't this what git-rerere is for?  If TopGit doesn't use rerere,
> maybe it would be easy to add...
I thought about this too, but have no experience with rerere.

Bert
>
> Have fun,
>
> Avery
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