Hi Brett, On Thu, 21 Jul 2016, Brett Cundal wrote: > [re-sending as plain-text so the list software doesn't reject as > spam... what decade is this?] I know it feels good to get frustration off of your chest by ranting. I am very sympathetic to that. Please note, however, that it puts the people who are ready to help you immediately into a defensive corner. Probably unintentional? > Sorry about the empty commit message... there was one originally (albeit > not as detailed as the pull request), but I guess it got stripped? As > you have probably guessed, I have no idea how you guys do patch > submission. It is okay. For historical reasons, the patch submission is a bit more involved than simply opening a Pull Request. We also frown upon top-posting, among other rules of netiquette. You may dislike it, but you would have to build more of a "street cred" if you truly wanted to try to convince the Git developers to change it. Back to the patch you wanted to submit: since this is an important bug fix, I spent the time to clean it up. The only missing bit that requires further effort from your side is that we need your Sign-off. See https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.9.2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches#L239-L291 for an explanation. Essentially, you are stating explicitly that you are not legally prohibited from contributing this patch. If you can say that, simply reply with a Signed-off-by: Brett Cundal <brett.cundal@xxxxxxxxxx> We can take it from there by inserting it into the following patch: -- snipsnap -- From: Brett Cundal <brett.cundal@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] subtree: allow unrelated histories when splitting with --rejoin Git 2.9 added a check against merging unrelated histories, which is exactly what git subtree with --rejoin does. Adding the --allow-unrelated-histories flag to merge will override this check. --- contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh index 7a39b30..556cd92 100755 --- a/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh +++ b/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ cmd_split() if [ -n "$rejoin" ]; then debug "Merging split branch into HEAD..." latest_old=$(cache_get latest_old) - git merge -s ours \ + git merge -s ours --allow-unrelated-histories \ -m "$(rejoin_msg "$dir" $latest_old $latest_new)" \ $latest_new >&2 || exit $? fi -- 2.9.0.281.g286a8d9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html