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Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 11, 2014, 18:57 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>  - Branch rename breaks local downstream branches
>    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/241228

If you have a branch B that builds on A, if you are renaming A to C, you may want B to automatically set to build on C in some cases, and in other cases your renaming A is done explicitly in order to severe the tie between A and B and setting the latter to build on C can be a bad thing---after all, the user's intention may be to create a branch A starting at some commit immediately after this rename so that B will keep building on that updated A.

So I am not sure if this is a bug.
>  - git stash doesn't use --index as default
>    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/235892

I tend to think "git stash" was designed to work this way from day one.

>  - using git commit-tree with "-F -" adds trailing newlines
>    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/236583

According to the initial commit that introduced this option, it deliberately calls strbuf_complete_line() to make sure we do not leave an incomplete line at the end.

Many of the other items in your "bugs" section seem to be worth fixing.

Thanks.
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