On Jan 03 2017, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:36:22AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> I still haven't really made up my mind if I want to use git-maint-merge
>> or git-dpm. Russ recently raised a valid point with the Debian
>> modifications over-time becoming all tangled up and impossible to
>> separate.
>
> I also read Russ's e-mail, but I'm not yet convinced that powerful tools
> like `git diff` and `git log` won't be able to give you the information
> you need pretty quickly.
Can you give an example? Eg if I have to Debian patched that both
produced merge conflicts at some point, how do I disentangle them into
two separate patches with just git log and git diff?
> It might take a little time to craft the right
> command, but that is easily outweighed by the time saved curating a
> patch series.
Well - that is obviously very much dependent on the git-fu of the person
doing the work.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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