Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:40:30AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > I just saw Martin Krafft's talk at debconf 8, showing TopGit, and I > wonder why TopGit needs to keep top-bases/* references ? Isn't > git merge-base enough for this ? the top-bases/ references are to determine what to base the patch against. Consider patch structure like: .---- A ----. vanilla < > C `---- B ----' Then, top-bases/C will consist of branches A and B, merging updates in these branches over time, and you can get the current image of C's patch by diffing top-bases/C and heads/C. There is no way how to get this by using git merge-base, since that gives you only kind of "multi-way diff" - I'm not even sure what would you call merge-base on in this example. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. -- Bill Gates -- 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
