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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo•org>,
	Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt•net>,
	Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci•utoronto.ca>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: git-svn SVN 1.7 fix, take 2
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:51:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vipdcesk6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500F17A3.60307@pobox.com> (Michael G. Schwern's message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:46:11 -0700")

Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox•com> writes:

> A big one is "do not blast 10 emails to a mailing list" but I gather that's ok
> here if a submission needs 10 commits to be well expressed and its done via
> git-send-email?  And then if patch #3 needs revision I'm to do it in a rebase
> and resend the whole 10 commits?  Am I to think of git-send-email less as a
> means of sending patches to a mailing list and more as a git transport mechanism?

Yes, yes and whatever (even though I think send-email is just a
better MUA/MSA when you want to send patches and isn't restricted
for a _git_ transport, I do not think it matters how you look at it).

> I'm trying to bust it up into easier to digest pieces.  I came into this cold
> without much knowledge of the problem ("something to do with
> canonicalization") and no knowledge of the code.

Perhaps it is a good idea to lurk and see how others submit their
topics first?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-24 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-24 21:46 git-svn SVN 1.7 fix, take 2 Michael G Schwern
2012-07-24 21:51 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-07-24 23:06   ` Michael G Schwern
2012-07-24 23:12     ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-24 22:02 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-24 22:50   ` Michael G Schwern
2012-07-24 23:03     ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-24 23:31     ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-24 23:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-25  1:00         ` Michael G Schwern
2012-07-25  4:53           ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-25  5:36             ` Michael G Schwern
2012-07-25  7:14               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-25  9:53                 ` Michael G Schwern

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