From: Carl Baldwin <carl@ecbaldwin.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 05:09:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Bring together merge and rebase
Message-ID: <20180105050919.GA14525@Carl-MBP.ecbaldwin.net>
In-Reply-To: <2180514.YZ24uruNv3@mfick-lnx>

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 12:19:34PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 26, 2017 12:40:26 AM Jacob Keller 
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Carl Baldwin 
> <carl@ecbaldwin.net> wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Carl Baldwin 
> <carl@ecbaldwin.net> wrote:
> > >> A bit of a tangent here, but a thought I didn't wanna
> > >> lose: In the general case where a patch was rebased
> > >> and the original parent pointer was changed, it is
> > >> actually quite hard to show a diff of what changed
> > >> between versions.
> > 
> > My biggest gripes are that the gerrit web interface
> > doesn't itself do something like this (and jgit does not
> > appear to be able to generate combined diffs at all!)
> 
> I believe it now does, a presentation was given at the 
> Gerrit User summit in London describing this work.  It would 
> indeed be great if git could do this also!

This would be very cool. I've wanted to tackle this for a long time. I
think I even filed an issue with gerrit about this years ago.

Carl