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Re: Merges without bases

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TOTim Ottinger <tottinge@progeny.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2005, 18:01 UTC
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Darrin Thompson wrote:
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>What I'm going to do is actually an inversion of that. Publishing a
>repository with the _intent_ of being merged into existing history, and
>observing obvious naming conventions as the "prior arrangement".
>
>I thought once I got the initial baseless merges done and committed that
>I do fetch-octopus from that point on. But octopus was still complaining
>about not finding a merge base. I'm going to verify that I didn't just
>mess something up in the process.
>
>If I can get octopus working as the tool for doing merges _after_ the
>baseless merges then I can live with the current situation. 
>  
>
Heh.  Git repositories as components.
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... either 'way ahead of the game, or 'way out in left field.
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Message 5 of 12 in “Merges without bases”
  1. Darrin ThompsonAug 25, 2005
  2. Darrin ThompsonAug 25, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2005
  4. Darrin ThompsonAug 25, 2005
  5. Tim OttingerSep 8, 2005
  6. Daniel BarkalowAug 26, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2005
  8. Eric W. BiedermanSep 9, 2005
  9. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005
  10. Daniel BarkalowAug 26, 2005
  11. Martin LanghoffAug 27, 2005
  12. Daniel BarkalowAug 27, 2005

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