[SR-Dev] git:henning/trie_mods: Merge commit 'origin/henning/trie'
Henning Westerholt
henning.westerholt at 1und1.de
Fri Nov 28 11:24:37 CET 2008
On Thursday 27 November 2008, Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul wrote:
> > > Author: Henning Westerholt <henning.westerholt at 1und1.de>
> > > Committer: Henning Westerholt <henning.westerholt at 1und1.de>
> > > Date: Thu Nov 27 14:00:30 2008 +0100
> > >
> > > Merge commit 'origin/henning/trie'
> > >
> > > * commit 'origin/henning/trie':
> > > add trie to library directory
> > > add SHM_MEM_ERROR and PKG_MEM_ERROR logging macros to mem.h
> >
> > Aaaaaaahrg, this git is killing me. :-/ I just want to start a new branch
> > from the master with:
>
> It's ok, you didn't do anything wrong :-)
>
> > git push --dry-run --verbose origin origin:refs/heads/henning/trie_mods
> > Pushing to ssh://git.sip-router.org/sip-router
> > To ssh://git.sip-router.org/sip-router
> > * [new branch] origin/HEAD -> henning/trie_mods
> >
> > This looked ok, and trie_mods branch is now created, but now i've made
> > probably another mistake. Andrei, can you perhaps reset the master again?
> > Why i got the same log message now? Also an issue with my git
> > installation? I'll tomorrow update my system, this can not continue this
> > way. :-(
>
> No, there isn't any problem, the commit is on your trie_mods branch not
> on master.
> You see the commit message because of the email script we use and not
> because a mistake in the merge.
Hi Andrei,
i understand, thanks for the clarification.
> The email script tries to send mail only for new commits, but if it
> doesn't find anything new (like in this case), it sends the top of the
> branch commit anyway as a failsafe (it doesn't have special support for
> detecting newly created branches).
> You should read this message as: henning/trie_mods created with
> head == displayed commit :-)
> We might extends the mail script in the future to send a better message
> in cases as above if people find the current behaviour too confusing
> (but for now I consider this quite low priority).
Yes, its not a problem if one knows about it.
> For now our email script does not support:
> - new branch created messages
> - non fast forward updates of a branch
> - branch deletion
> For all of the above a commit message with the current head of the
> branch will be sent (for the delete it would be the old branch head
> and the branch name will have DELETED appended to it).
> Should I make the script public somewhere? Is anybody interesting in
> extending it?
Would be cool to have a better detection of the situation i just run into, but
i fear that i lack the git skills at the moment to do this job.
Cheers,
Henning
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