Re: [Development] gerrit : using branches (was: pointers to use it cleverly/efficiently?)

2016-04-04 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Forgot - maybe a stupid question, but can you set up a topic branch to track a remote branch (and would that make sense)? R ___ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development

Re: [Development] gerrit : using branches (was: pointers to use it cleverly/efficiently?)

2016-04-04 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday April 04 2016 11:56:23 Welbourne Edward wrote: >You can even use: git log --graph >if you can cope with ASCII art ;-) As long as it doesn't include cows ;) >merge-base - if you have a strict tree, this isn't a merge, so it's >where one was branched off the other, but nothing about the

Re: [Development] gerrit : using branches (was: pointers to use it cleverly/efficiently?)

2016-04-04 Thread Welbourne Edward
René J.V. Bertin > I've seen graphical utilities that attempt to show the branch > hierarchy in some kind of tree, You can even use: git log --graph if you can cope with ASCII art ;-) > but apparently miss from `git help branch` if it's possible to know > the origin branch of a topic branch. Is i

Re: [Development] gerrit : using branches (was: pointers to use it cleverly/efficiently?)

2016-04-04 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday April 04 2016 10:25:16 Welbourne Edward wrote: More very useful info, thanks! > For three-way diffs between two commits and their most recent common > ancestor, you can use git diff $topic...$other, if you're comfortable > reading three-way diffs, I could be - using a side-by-side visu

Re: [Development] gerrit : using branches (was: pointers to use it cleverly/efficiently?)

2016-04-04 Thread Welbourne Edward
In response to: >>> What works well for me e.g. before doing a commit is what I think of >>> as manual rebasing: I remove my patches one way or another, git-pull, >>> and then reapply the patch(es). I offered: >> That's pretty much exactly what >> >> $ git pull -r >> >> (a.k.a. --rebase) will do f

Re: [Development] gerrit : using branches (was: pointers to use it cleverly/efficiently?)

2016-04-04 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
04.04.2016, 12:32, "René J. V. Bertin" : > Welbourne Edward wrote: > > Hi, > >>>  What works well for me e.g. before doing a commit is what I think of >>>  as manual rebasing: I remove my patches one way or another, git-pull, >>>  and then reapply the patch(es). >> >>  That's pretty much exactly

Re: [Development] gerrit : using branches (was: pointers to use it cleverly/efficiently?)

2016-04-04 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Welbourne Edward wrote: Hi, >> What works well for me e.g. before doing a commit is what I think of >> as manual rebasing: I remove my patches one way or another, git-pull, >> and then reapply the patch(es). > > That's pretty much exactly what > > $ git pull -r > > (a.k.a. --rebase) will do f