Hello, On Mon 27 Feb 2023 at 12:17AM +01, Diederik de Haas wrote: > But AFAIK the Debian Xen Team does use dgit (not surprising given dgit's > maintainer (and author?)) ... and that drives me insane. > I'm very sure that is due to me not understanding the concepts/idea/etc, but I > can't wrap my head around it and it feels *to me* like it constantly rewrites > the (git) history and then does a `git push -f` ... every time. > I once referenced a patch by number (and a short description iirc) and on the > next push, that patch had a different number, thus messing up my commit msg. > > The most confusing thing for/to me is that it completely rearranges the commit > sequence, so I can't follow the changes that happened over time. > Right now in https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/-/commits/master > HEAD~30 (and the 2 commits before that) are the most recent (and to me the > most relevant), but HEAD~9 was made 8 YEARS ago. > > I may learn dgit in time, but that'll probably be a (long) while. This is not dgit. This is git-debrebase, an experimental tool. Russ's comments about dgit are not at all connected with the (legitimate) issues with git-debrebase you describe. -- Sean Whitton
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