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Re: [linuxtools-dev] Gerrit merge strategy
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- From: akurtakov <akurtakov@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:52:36 +0300
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I wouldn't mind it if the dependencies problem is fixed now.
Alex
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Alexandre Montplaisir
<alexandre.montplaisir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We've been using the new Gerrit for the past week, and we're loving it ;)
>
> However I've noticed the merge strategy in the Project Options is set to
> "Merge If Necessary", which is the default value. This creates a lot of
> empty merge commits if the commit we're merging wasn't based exactly on
> the latest master.
>
> What would you guys think about using the "Cherry-pick" option instead?
> It means that every patch gets rebased on the master before being
> merged. This would guarantee that the git history remains linear, which
> makes it much easier to bisect, and is prettier in general.
>
>
> CDT had a similar discussion in the past, see
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=375448
> Now they are indeed using the "Cherry-pick" option.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Alexandre Montplaisir
> DORSAL lab,
> Ãcole Polytechnique de MontrÃal
>
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