From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:06:58 GMT
Subject: Re: linearising TopGit forests into patch series (was: [ANNOUNCE] TopGit - A different patch queue manager)
Message-ID: <20080808170658.GA16055@lapse.rw.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <36ca99e90808071258h62b65981s20a5b053d9bc5754@mail.gmail.com>

also sprach Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> [2008.08.07.1658 -0300]:
> Should be doable, I think. At least you can get a topological sorted
> list of the TopGit branches (with git show-branch --topo-order <list
> of TopGit-branches>). But than it get complicated, because you don't
> need the diff from branch-base to branch-head, this would only work
> for a single dependent list of topic branches.

Hm, I am not entirely following. I understand that I can get
a topological list of branches, but why don't I need the diff from
branch-base to branch-head?

Also, what happens if branches cross-merge?

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