[Development] Proposal: New branch model

Jedrzej Nowacki Jedrzej.Nowacki at qt.io
Thu Jan 24 15:24:12 CET 2019


Dnia środa, 23 stycznia 2019 23:05:17 CET Allan Sandfeld Jensen pisze:
> More than that. Once you have had cherry-pick only for a while git will be
> unable to find useful common ancestors for the changes, and will be unable
> to do smart three-way merging of cherry-picks, increasing the number of
> conflicts that needs to be resolved manually while decreasing the useful
> information git can give you (no more useful three-way diff).
> 
> 'Allan

Good point, that is a risk. Question is how big it is. Does it really affect 
us, as old branches over time should be modified less and less. Are there 
tooling like git rerere able to help us?

Cheers,
  Jędrek




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