Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Teach submodule set-branch subcommand

> Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I rebased the changes onto the latest 'next' because if this branch gets
> > merged into 'next', there'll be merge conflicts from
> > 'dl/complete-submodule-absorbgitdirs'.
> 
> Please don't do that.
> 
> A topic that depends on everything in 'next' cannot graduate to
> 'master' until everything that is cooking in 'next' does.
> 
> When
> 
>  - the "conflict" that would arise is so trivial to resolve,
> 
>  - there is no semantic crashes between the new topic and existing
>     ones, and
> 
>  - the topic is usable even before other topics graduate (or even
>    when they get discarded)
> 
> please make it a habit to avoid making your topic (i.e. this one)
> hostage to another topic (i.e. the absorbgitdirs one), and certainly
> not hostage to the whole of 'next'.  A trivial conflict resolution
> in this case, if you revert the rebasing and then attempt to merge
> the result to 'next', would look like this.