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SubjectRe: linux-next: unnecessary merge in the v4l-dvb tree
Em Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:42:44 -0800
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> escreveu:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> > And some maintainers end up using multiple repositories as branches
> > (the old _original_ git model). Again, you can just use "git fetch +
> > git reset", of course, but that's a bit unsafe. In contrast, doing
> > "git pull --ff-only" is a safe convenient operation that does both the
> > fetch and the update to whatever state.
> >
> > But you do need that "--ff-only" to avoid the merge.
>
> OK. I guess it is legit (and semi-sensible) for downstream
> contributors to "git pull --ff-only $upstream $release_tag_X" to
> bring their long-running topic currently based on release X-1 up to
> date with respect to release X. It probably makes more sense than
> rebasing on top of release X, even though it makes a lot less sense
> than merging their topics into release X.
>
> As you said, pull of a tag that forbids fast-forward by default is
> rather old development (I am kind of surprised that it was so old,
> in v1.7.9), so it may be a bit difficult to transition.
>
> There is
>
> [pull]
> ff = only
>
> but pull.ff is quite global, and not good for intermediate level
> maintainers who pull to integrate work of their downstream (for
> which they do want the current "do not ff, record the tag in a merge
> commit" behaviour) and also pull to catch up from their upstream
> (which they want "ff-when-able"). They need to control between
> ff=only and ff=when-able, depending on whom they are pulling from.

Yes, that's my pain. I don't want ff only when pulling from others,
only when pulling from upstream tree.

>
> We may want per-remote equivalent for it, i.e. e.g.
>
> [pull]
> ff=false ;# good default for collecting contributions
>
> [remote "torvalds"]
> pullFF = only ;# good default for catching up
>
> or something like that, perhaps?


Yeah, something like that works. Please notice, however, that what I
usually do is:

$ git remote update torvalds
$ git merge <tag>
(or git pull . <tag>)

So, for the above to work, it should store somehow the remote from
where a tag came from.




The reason is that I keep locally a cache with several tree clones
(in bare mode) s that I bother enough to cache (linus, -stable, -next),
as pulling from BR is time consuming, and I want to do it only once
and use the same "cache" for all my git clones.

I have a few git workdirs for my upstream work, but, as a patch
developer, I also have "independent"[1] git repositories.

[1] Due to disk constraints, the clones actually use --shared. So,
the common objects are actually stored inside a single tree.

Thanks,
Mauro

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