From: Stephen Smith Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 13:41:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] How to keep a project's canonical history correct. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1399615721-566-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net> > On May 8, 2014, at 11:08 PM, "Stephen P. Smith" wrote: > > During the mail thread about "Pull is mostly evil" a user asked how > the first parent could become reversed. > > This howto explains how the first parent can get reversed when viewed > by the project and then explains a method to keep the history correct. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith > --- The reason I resubmitted as a brand new patch was because I was using the message ID from the original topic as requested. In my repository I did a "git merge --squash" then the format patch.