From: Meet Soni <meetsoni3017@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:27:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC][PATCH 0/2] Add refs exists subcommand
Message-ID: <CAPhwyn2jW4p+_004OHYjtcScGFBEx3zXi50F2TYTDBjsUHFxgw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7byw4qbl.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 at 21:31, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Meet Soni <meetsoni3017@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > base-commit: c44beea485f0f2feaf460e2ac87fdd5608d63cf0
> > prerequisite-patch-id: 235cc677f372e9571dade4313f8cfed4eab65f7f
> > ... (~100 lines of crap omitted)
> > prerequisite-patch-id: 553adfe23223a427db3f93e23dfb603c55cc5aae
>
> Please don't force others to go hunt to find so many patches before
> being able to even recreate what you based your changes on.
>
I was a bit confused between cherry-picking and basing my series on next, and I
ended up doing the latter. I’ll fix it.

> Learn the way how it is usually done by looking at:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250106-b4-pks-object-file-racy-collision-check-v2-0-8b3984ecbb18@pks.im/
>
> Basically you would want to say
>
>     This is built on top of <commit> with <topic*> merged into it.
>
> where <commit> is a commit on 'master' (or 'maint' or an even older
> maintenance track, if the topic is about fixing a bug in a released
> version of Git), and <topic*> are topic branches in flight that can
> be merged to the same integration target ('master', or an older
> maintenance tracks you chose <commit> from).  And keep the number of
> <topic*> to an absolute minimum in order for your changes to work.
>
> Thanks.

Thanks.