Re: rebasing topic/libposix

2011-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/06/2011 11:02 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:07:22AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: >> I have forgotten why GIT tends to hang up without telling you why: >> >>> $ git push >>> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly >> >> so I haven't pushed the 180 commit merge. >

Re: rebasing topic/libposix

2011-05-06 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:07:22AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: > I have forgotten why GIT tends to hang up without telling you why: > > >$ git push > >fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > > so I haven't pushed the 180 commit merge. If memory serves that happens when you make a read-only

Re: rebasing topic/libposix

2011-05-06 Thread Bruce Korb
On 05/05/11 07:20, Eric Blake wrote: Rebasing a public branch is only acceptable if you make it equally public that you are doing the rebase. Otherwise, you are better off doing a merge rather than a rebase. OK, I did it as a merge. There was a strange conflict in modules/inttypes wherein Mak

Re: rebasing topic/libposix

2011-05-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > The question then comes on how to incorporate the branch back into > master. For libposix, the approach I favour is that individual patches that address individual issues (Gary and I have listed 9 issues) get proposed for master, get reviewed, and then get committed. Individual

Re: rebasing topic/libposix

2011-05-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/04/2011 11:11 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Howdy Bruce, > > On 5 May 2011, at 03:22, Bruce Korb wrote: >> Not being a GIT guru, I had previously done "git merge" to >> synchronize topic/libposix with master. Seemed straight >> forward and obvious to me. However, "rebase" is a better >> sp

Re: rebasing topic/libposix

2011-05-04 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Howdy Bruce, On 5 May 2011, at 03:22, Bruce Korb wrote: > Not being a GIT guru, I had previously done "git merge" to > synchronize topic/libposix with master. Seemed straight > forward and obvious to me. However, "rebase" is a better > spelling for the proper process of resynchronization. I'm

rebasing topic/libposix

2011-05-04 Thread Bruce Korb
Not being a GIT guru, I had previously done "git merge" to synchronize topic/libposix with master. Seemed straight forward and obvious to me. However, "rebase" is a better spelling for the proper process of resynchronization. So, I did a "git rebase" and it was a mess. Lots of stuff would not