From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg•org>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com>,
git <git@vger•kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
Brandon Williams <bmwill@google•com>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2017, #04; Wed, 19)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 23:52:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa875uggj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3bd4a2d7-ada9-6198-8cf1-573d80cae1b4@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07:51:51 +0200")
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg•org> writes:
> The idea of marking git-gui and gitk histories that none of their
> commits is checked out: it erases all Git source code from the working
> directory, and a later bisection step places all code back and it
> requires a full build. Not a big deal with Git, but there are much
> larger code bases.
>
> The current bisect behavior makes this idea unworkable. For me, it was
> a big step backwards when it was implemented. :-(
I think it is sort-of unfair to blame bisect for that. It talks
more about how "coolest merge evar!" cross project merges are
unworkable in practice. With a proper submodule support, nobody
should be doing it, but we started the cross project merge way
before we had submodules, so...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-25 6:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-20 5:37 What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2017, #04; Wed, 19) Junio C Hamano
2017-04-20 9:59 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-04-20 15:35 ` Jeff King
2017-04-20 22:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-20 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-20 15:32 ` Lars Schneider
2017-04-20 22:52 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <D61D47BD-9750-4FB6-892E-013504E03738@gmail.com>
2017-04-20 13:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-20 16:56 ` Brandon Williams
2017-04-20 23:18 ` Brandon Williams
2017-04-21 0:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-20 22:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-21 9:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-21 12:29 ` Christian Couder
2017-04-22 11:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-22 17:32 ` Christian Couder
2017-04-24 14:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-22 13:37 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-04-24 14:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-24 16:34 ` Philip Oakley
2017-04-25 2:17 ` Christian Couder
2017-04-25 2:00 ` Christian Couder
2017-04-25 5:51 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-04-25 6:52 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-04-25 18:26 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-04-24 0:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-24 14:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-24 15:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-25 0:56 ` Junio C Hamano
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