Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] t3701: indent here documents

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2018, 15:58 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqinafiy84.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <30ff8d98-e86f-2eca-c7fb-25f537f9e3e5@talktalk.net>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:

> Thanks for the tips, tbdiff looks useful (I just need to learn to read
> diffs of diffs!). I also find rebasing them on a common ancestor useful
> but its a bit tedious.

Yes, comparing two versions of a series is somewhat unusual and needs getting used to before one can do so efficiently. You do not have to always rebase (tbdiff is fairly good at what it does even when two ranges are far apart), but it helps not to begin developing on a codebase that is newer than needed (e.g. a bugfix on 'next' is unneeded unless you are fixing a bug introduced by a topic that is still on 'next'---in which case the best fix is one that is on that topic, without depending on the rest of 'next').

In any case, thank _you_ for contributing.