Re: Newbie: report of first experience with git-rebase.
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- J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
- Date
- Oct 31, 2007, 22:38 UTC
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- <20071031223819.GN4569@fieldses.org>
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- <4728FC5C.30709@midwinter.com>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:06:20PM -0700, Steven Grimm wrote:
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> I've been using rebase just about every day for close to a year and it > *still* annoys me when it happens. Especially the "Did you forget to git > add?" part of the message. The thought that always goes through my head is, > "No, Mr. Rebase, I did NOT forget to git add. I remembered to git add, then > you were too stupid to do the right thing after that." > > Just happened to me this morning, in fact: I had a quick hack in place to > work around a bug, the bug got fixed for real, and I rebased. In the > process of conflict resolution I saw that my workaround wasn't needed any > more and accepted the upstream version of that particular part of the file. > Ran git-add on it, then rebase --continue, and boom, was accused of > forgetting to run git-add. > > It is a minor annoyance and nowadays I just sigh a bit and run --skip > instead, but it'd be nice if it didn't happen. I don't like having to care > whether or not I happened to change other files in a particular commit > after I resolve conflicts in one file in favor of the upstream version.
Yeah, I think a message saying "patch is now empty, skipping..." would be sufficient to let the user know what's going on. This doesn't seem so perilous to me that it's worth requiring a positive acknowledgement.
--b.