> True! I was just wondering if you ran into the same issues I just > found with rebasing. > > > > It also makes it nearly impossible to maintain your own > > > branch based off the pcb+gl branch since it will constantly be > > > diverging. Use stgit and rebase yourself - that would work. > I just have been maintaining my own trivial branch > (2-line patch that still hasn't made it into git HEAD *grumble* > https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/699498) based off the pcb+gl > branch, but that made the downside of rebasing evident. Patch is pushed ;) Hope it makes life easier. > Anyway, nothing against Peter C's work or his choice of methods to > manage his branch. It's all tradeoffs. I think rebasing makes some > things quicker but in the long run is messier since you lose track of > the exact changes you originally made. Yes, but we don't particularly want to commit those - the alternative is re-writing the code repeatedly, and I chose to use stgit instead. > That's all I have to say except to end with thanks to Peter Clifton for > creating and maintaining the pcb+gl branch, and I hope it goes to > mainline soon. Me to - thanks for the positive comments. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)
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