From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:58:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] rr/fmt-merge-msg replacement
Message-ID: <7v7hjdmhtn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100826051235.GA9407@kytes>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

>> Just as a future reference, in a case like this that results in trivial
>> conflict, I'd prefer to see a patch that can be used independently from
>> other unrelated branches.
>
> Oh, okay. I think I realize why- if the dependent topics are ejected,
> you'll have more trouble taking this forward to `next` and `master`,
> right?

Not just "ejection".  In general topics mature at different rates, and
there is no point requiring the other unrelated topic to graduate first to
'master' before your topic does.

>> Maybe you'd want a new test or two in t6200?
>
> Good idea! It'll give me the chance to familiarize myself with
> test-lib.sh :)