A (somewhat) problematic merge

Luiz Romário Santana Rios luizromario at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 04:11:56 UTC 2012


Disregard that, I just tried to merge the romariorios/calculator-qml branch
into master and it went fine. I still have no idea, though, of why that
wasn't working properly. Maybe I was doing something wroking.

Anyway, just ignore this email.

2012/11/6 Luiz Romário Santana Rios <luizromario at gmail.com>

> So, I've ported the Calculator applet to QML and I did it in a separate
> branch. But, as my work is based on the work already done by bettio, I
> merged his branch into mine and continued the work from there. The problem
> is that there was a lot of old stuff in his branch (it was branched from an
> old master commit), and that got into my branch unnoticed by me.
>
> Until now.
>
> I tried to merge my romariorios/calculator-qml branch directly into
> master, but quickly realized that it would bring a lot of old junk to
> master, for the aforementioned reasons. My "solution", then, was to do the
> opposite first: merge master into romariorios/calculator-qml, so that the
> rest of the tree got updated and, then, merge romariorios/calculator-qml
> into master, bringing only the relevant changes to the master tree. But I
> think that would make the commit history a bit funky.
>
> What should I do?
>
> --
> Luiz Romário Santana Rios
>

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Luiz Romário Santana Rios
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