Re: New SCM and commit list

[Ryan Anderson]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:15:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > But I hope that I can get non-conflicting merges done fairly soon, and 
> > > maybe I can con James or Jeff or somebody to try out GIT then...
> > 
> > I don't mind being a guinea pig as long as someone else does the hard 
> > work of finding a new way to merge :)
> 
> So I can tell you what merges are going to be like, just to prepare you.
> 
> First, the good news: I think we can make the workflow look like bk, ie
> pretty much like "git pull" and "git push".  And for well-behaved stuff
> (ie minimal changes to the same files on both sides) it will even be fast.  
> I think.

If you can stick something meaningful in a simple text file, overwritten
after each merge completes, similar to the BitKeeper/csets-in file, it
should be trivial to write a wrapper for the basic merge tool that calls
a trigger after each merge and uses csets-in to generate diffs and email
them out.

-- 

Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere
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