Please don't rebase / ff the git master branches

qznc qznc at web.de
Fri Nov 15 23:49:19 PST 2013


On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 23:07:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Maybe we should incorporate druntime/phobos as submodules in 
> the dmd
> repos? This will greatly help in tracking down regressions with 
> git
> bisect (I remember there were a few that I couldn't track down 
> because
> of the difficulty of finding the correct druntime/phobos 
> versions needed
> for a particular version of dmd). This will also give us a much 
> better
> history of D development.

If this is seriously considered, then we should also look at git 
subtree. It is similar to submodules, but with different 
tradeoffs. When we introduced our submodules-solution, subtree 
did not exist yet.


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