[FFmpeg-devel] libav commit f8c34f4b8d62afad3f63cf3d9617d73735bef8c1 (again)

[Mats Peterson]

Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> skrev: (16 mars 2016 09:59:00 CET)
>On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 09:17:55 +0100, Mats Peterson wrote:
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>Why are always 10+ mails quoted, when none of the context is of
>interest? I'm tired of skipping all this stuff... I must find that mutt
>patch again. (Mats, this isn't personally directed at you. Though you
>"chains of thought" do extend "threads of mails" significantly.)
>
>> In any case, I don't see anything wrong with creating a patch that 
>> includes those changes, as long as I attribute the author properly.
>It's 
>> no different from writing it myself, once again.
>
>You don't get the concept:
>The "other upstream" or other branch has commits waiting to be merged:
>...
> -A-
>   -B-
>     -C-
>       -D-
>         -E-
>
>You are asking to commit "something like C". In the best case, this
>will become confusing when it comes time to merge C.
>
>In the worst case, it will bring conflicts when merging A, B, D and E,
>making so much more manual work for the merger.
>
>The only acceptable thing to bring forward C is to merge exactly that
>one commit ahead of time, if it's *really* important. But that requires
>you to do the prework on that: branch ffmpeg master, merge *exactly*
>that commit by cherry-picking (not rewrite something like it), commit
>it to your branch, and provide that branch with this one merge-commit,
>which can then be cherry-picked back into ffmpeg master.
>
>But why??????? What's so urgent? If you need that commit in order to
>base your experiments on it, just go ahead and do the branching and
>cherry-pick merging in your local clone, and work with that (and wait
>to submit it here until that commit you're waiting for is in master,
>and the dust around your own changes has settled - v23). Git makes
>this stuff so easy for you.
>
>Moritz
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Using Git and "easy" in the same sentence is something I refrain from. But thanks for the in-depth information, Moritz.

Mats
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