Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up

On 6/3/09, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> wrote:
> * Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> [090603 10:26]:
> > Thats true, but it's not representable in VCS, unless you use cherry-pick,
> > which is just UI around patch transport. But considering separate
> > local trees (with can optionally contain local per-fix branches),
> > it is possible to separate the fix-developement from final representation.
>
>
> I'll note that in git, cherry-pick is *more* than just "patch
> transport". I would more call it "patch commute". It does actually
> look at the history between the "pick"ed patch, and the current
> tree, any merge/fork points, and the differences on each path that lead
> to the changes in the current tree and the picked patch.

Well, thats good to know, but this also seems to mean it's rather bad
tool for back-patching, as you risk including random unwanted commits
too that happened in the HEAD meantime. But also, it's very good
tool for forward-patching.

But my point was not about that - rather I was pointing out that
this "patch-commute" will result in duplicate commits, that have
no ties in DAG.

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marko