Re: Integration branching

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 7, 2008, 17:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7vod8lpnpb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <b24851260804070602o11b93923m7ce7d79d5f59547b@mail.gmail.com>

"Kai Hendry" <hendry@aplixcorp.com> writes:

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> So I expected it to work like so:
>
> git clone git://git.webkit.org/WebKit.git
> git checkout -b test
>
> <Make a few small changes and commit>
>
> git-config remote.upload.url ssh://git.webvm.net/srv/git/webkit-test

A set of big questions is how that git.webvm.net/srv/git/webkit-test repository was prepared, what its history look like and how it relates to the history your repository has. I presume that that is different from the repository you are pushing from (which is "x61:aplix/test/WebKit" repository), but other than that you did not give any details to guess further.

> x61:~/aplix/test/WebKit% git push --thin -v upload test

By the way, that --thin is an implementation detail and not meant for the end user consumption. I do not think it would matter in this case, though.

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> Pushing to ssh://git.webvm.net/srv/git/webkit-test
> Counting objects: 371612, done.
> Compressing objects: 100% (67851/67851), done.
> Writing objects:  11% (43886/371612), 25.32 MiB | 88 KiB/
>
> However when uploading the branch it seems to upload _everything_
> which is far too big and impractical. Couldn't it just somehow
> reference the remote branch and just publish the patch of the "small
> changes"?

What you described is exactly what is supposed to be doing, but again as we do not know how that git.webvm.net:/srv/gi/webkit-test/ repository was prepared, we cannot tell.

But I have a theory:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/77643

and the latest code is still parked in 'pu' branch.