Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2010-02-15 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:17:17AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > retitle 493646 git cvsimport -m: too eager to declare a merge > reassign 493646 git-cvs > thanks > > Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > I think they're mostly created using git cvsimport, which seems > > to be doing something else and makes

Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2010-02-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 493646 git cvsimport -m: too eager to declare a merge reassign 493646 git-cvs thanks Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I think they're mostly created using git cvsimport, which seems > to be doing something else and makes it show up as a merge. Okay, so the problem is that merges in the CVS world and

Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2010-02-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 03:16:50AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I don't understand. > > Part of my confusion is that what you are talking about is creating > history, but gitk is mostly a tool for viewing history. So I am > trying to imagine what series of commands created the history you are

Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2010-02-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:02:46PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Then while on the stable branch you use 'git cherry-pick H'. This >> produces a history like so: >> >> E -- F -- G --- H --- I --- ... [devel] >>/ >> A -- B -- C -- D --- H' [stable] >> >> where H

Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2010-02-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:02:46PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Then while on the stable branch you use 'git cherry-pick H'. This > produces a history like so: > > E -- F -- G --- H --- I --- ... [devel] >/ > A -- B -- C -- D --- H' [stable] > > where H' introduces the same chang

Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2010-02-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:26:40PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Suppose (where time flows left to right), I have this history: >> >>E -- F -- G [topic] >> / >> A -- B -- C -- D [master] >> >> If I am on branch master and use 'git merge topic', then all the >> chan

Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2010-02-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:26:40PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > I think the main problem is that when I look at the history in git > > that it's unclear which patches are all applied to a branch. > > > > If you have a branch and you add a few patches to it, and then >

Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2010-02-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:49:34PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Could you say a little more about this? Is the problem that you want >> a list of patches representing the diff between a merge commit and its >> first parent? > > I think the main problem is that when I look

Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2010-02-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:49:34PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Hi Kurt, > > About a year ago, you wrote: > > > Package: gitk > > Version: 1:1.5.6.3-1 > > > > When looking at the history with gitk, when there is a merge, it's not > > clear at all to me what exactly got merged. > > > > It'

Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2010-02-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 493646 wishlist thanks Hi Kurt, About a year ago, you wrote: > Package: gitk > Version: 1:1.5.6.3-1 > > When looking at the history with gitk, when there is a merge, it's not > clear at all to me what exactly got merged. > > It's ussually only the last commit on the developement branc

Bug#493646: gitk: Show which patches from other branch were merged.

2008-08-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Package: gitk Version: 1:1.5.6.3-1 When looking at the history with gitk, when there is a merge, it's not clear at all to me what exactly got merged. It's ussually only the last commit on the developement branch that is merged to a stable branch. But it could also be more than 1 commit. The m