Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] implement branch --recurse-submodules

From: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Date: Dec 21, 2021, 17:51 UTC
Message-ID: <kl6lbl19zw07.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv8zisr43.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com> writes:
>
>> v6 fixes v5's bad rebase; it was based off a merge commit in 'seen'
>> instead of js/branch-track-inherit. Since v5 is mostly a no-op, I will
>> also include a range-diff against v4, which is the last version that
>> anyone except Junio would care about.
>>
>> This version is based off Josh's js/branch-track-inherit v7. Because that
>> is not yet in 'seen',...
>
> Thanks.  js/branch/track-inherit has been using v7 since Fri Dec 17
> 15:47:47 2021 -0800, but unfortunately that was after the week's
> integration work and the 'seen' shown to the public probably did not
> have it.
>
> FYI at least since [*1*] was used to create 751363af (branch: add
> flags and config to inherit tracking, 2021-10-16), the topic
> js/branch-track-inherit has always been queued on top of f443b226
> (Thirteenth batch, 2021-10-14).  I try to keep the same base to keep
> things stable, unless there is a strong enough reason why we should
> depend on newer base commit.

Ah, I see, so it would make the most sense for me to apply the patches on the the same base as you. I'll keep that in mind in the future.