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Re: TopGit: problem with patch series generation

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Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Date
Aug 12, 2008, 18:54 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 18:25, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:18 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
>> As I am packaging TopGit for Debian, I encountered
>> the situation that two branches conflict with each other (they
>> change the same line), but there is no dependency between the
>> branches. Thus, when I squash the branches into a series, the
>> resulting patches will not apply (they both change the same original
>> line to something else).
>
> Isn't this what git-rerere is for?  If TopGit doesn't use rerere,
> maybe it would be easy to add...
I thought about this too, but have no experience with rerere.
Bert
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> Have fun,
>
> Avery
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Message 3 of 11 in “TopGit: problem with patch series generation”
  1. martin f krafftAug 12, 2008
  2. Avery PennarunAug 12, 2008
  3. Bert WesargAug 12, 2008
  4. Petr BaudisAug 12, 2008
  5. martin f krafftAug 12, 2008
  6. Santi BéjarAug 12, 2008
  7. martin f krafftAug 12, 2008
  8. Petr BaudisAug 12, 2008
  9. martin f krafftAug 12, 2008
  10. martin f krafftAug 12, 2008
  11. Petr BaudisAug 13, 2008

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