NepomukCore - Do not merge KDE/4.10 into master

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 6 de maig de 2013, a les 19:49:13, Nicolás Alvarez va escriure:
> 2013/5/6 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> 
> > El Dilluns, 6 de maig de 2013, a les 19:37:15, Nicolás Alvarez va 
escriure:
> > > 2013/5/6 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> > > 
> > > > El Dissabte, 4 de maig de 2013, a les 14:01:45, Vishesh Handa va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > > > Hey everyone
> > > > > 
> > > > > As you might have heard there was a fiasco in the nepomuk-core
> > > > > repository
> > > > > where the 'master' branch was accidentally merged into KDE/4.10.
> > 
> > Since
> > 
> > > > then
> > > > 
> > > > > the system admins had to do a hard reset to v4.10.2 and I had to
> > > > > manually
> > > > > cherry-pick a lot of the commits.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I do not want anyone to merge KDE/4.10 into master. It will lead
> > 
> > will a
> > 
> > > > > number of duplicate commits, and considering we already have a LOT
> > > > > of
> > > > > duplicates I do not want any more.
> > > > 
> > > > Can't you just merge the branches, then rebase -i and in the rebase
> > > > actually
> > > > remove all the duplicated commits?
> > > 
> > > What would that achieve? If you rebase, the history becomes linear and
> > 
> > the
> > 
> > > merge stops being a merge.
> > 
> > This gives you a master branch where KDE/4.10 has already been merged (so
> > next
> > merges don't bring in all the new duplicate commits) and has no duplicate
> > commits (since you killed them in the rebase -i).
> 
> rebase will linearize the history, removing the merge commit, which means
> 4.10 won't be recorded as "already been merged" anymore.

I've done it in the poppler repo, and it has worked.

Cheers,
  Albert