Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2021, #03; Tue, 13)

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2021, 11:54 UTC
Message-ID: <87fswh14ta.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFQ2z_P=9Suh0kO6E44hUOyNFOAKcmcUg_x6AQFP9jhHrBA6RQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 14 2021, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 3:07 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> [Stalled]
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>> * hn/reftable (2021-05-20) 27 commits
>
> I have some updates for the series pending, but I'm waiting for the
> preliminaries (test fixes, the errno stuff) to hit master.
>
> How do other folks deal with dependencies between topics?

Not very well, but maybe this works for you.

If I had say a "ab/reftable" locally and it depended on "ab/refs-errno-fixes" I'd rebase ab/refs-errno-fixes on top of ab/reftable, and set the upstream info ("git branch --set-upstream-to") to my pushed version of ab/reftable.

Thus "git log @{u}.." in "ab/reftable" gives me changes as of the "ab/refs-errno-fixes" "base" topic, and git-format-patch/send-email will send patches as of that topic.

Of course when you send this to the list you need to make that dependency relationship clear, as in my just-submitted re-roll of your/my refs.c errno changes: https://lore.kernel.org/git/87im1d156t.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/

I have no idea if/how this would work with gitgitgadget, which I think you exclusively use.