[FFmpeg-devel] Confusing git merges

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:53:56AM +0100, Tomas Härdin wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer skrev 2011-03-21 10:42:
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:02:02AM +0100, Tomas Härdin wrote:
>>> Michael Niedermayer skrev 2011-03-19 20:32:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I know alot of people have been confused seeing changes and then seeing them
>>>> reverted, or seeing changes on the ML that arent in the merged version
>>>>
>>>> I really hate it as well, but this is how 'git pull' works
>>>> Unless we modify git or at least the mailing list hook these things will
>>>> keep showing up.
>>>>
>>>> when theres a merge, the hook posts all changes of the merged branch no matter
>>>> if they are in the actual result or not.
>>>>
>>>> i cant really do anything about it, except hacking the ML hook to filter it
>>>> out
>>>
>>> Why not squash the reverts into the merge before pushing?
>>
>> i agree that this is better, especially in the sense of not poluting
>> history. Ive done it also at least twice, and will probably keep using it
>> but it doesnt stop the "unmerged" commits from showing up
>
> You could always cherry-pick

I know, i guess it depends on how bad the tree is, currently the commit quality
is definitly on a downward trend there

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