[Google SOC] Rebase command

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Mar 26 12:40:57 CDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 18:26 +0100, Stefano wrote:
> Patrick Mézard ha scritto:
> > Peter Arrenbrecht a écrit :
> >   
> >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Stefano <stefano at inventati.org> wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  echo -e "\n-- User a wants to cherry-pick just the Y-feature"
> >>>  # Something like:
> >>>  # cd $BASEDIR/user_a
> >>>  # hg rebase user_b -r 2
> >>>       
> >> This would probably be "hg transplant" rather than rebase, but with
> >> transplant augmented to do proper three-way merge. This is part of
> >> what your work would encompass.
> >>     
> >
> > I would not focus too much about cherry-picking in the beginning, a working branch rebasing command looks like a good first milestone to me.
> Ok, so the first milestone would be a version that allows 
> non-interruptible branch rebasing.
> Next I could focus on dealing with interruptions and then on cherry-picking.
> Obviously, I'll detail more the single phases...
> 
> Anyway, may I ask who would be my mentor?
> I have few days left and I'm going to write a draft of application, so 
> I'd like to know if there's
> going to be someone who will patiently read it.

How we allocate mentors is likely going to depend on what applications
we get. But I'm sure the mentors and possibly some others (Brendan?)
will give your proposal a read.

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