TopGit: problem with patch series generation

[Petr Baudis]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:41:55PM -0300, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Santi Béjar <sbejar at gmail.com> [2008.08.12.1828 -0300]:
> > I don´t know if it fits topgit, but this is what Junio uses:
> > 
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/24498
> 
> I think this is definitely something TopGit can automate.

This seems to be in principle the same as the tie branches. It might
make sense to have a way to _optionally_ make a tie branch.

How should that work? Maybe there needs to be even an explicit support
for this - should TopGit just check the dependency tree when
sequencing the topic branches and have a step that says:

	"I'm going to sequence branch A. If there is branch T that has
	only already sequenced branches + branch A as dependencies,
	use T's content instead of A."

Would that be satisfactory?

Finding out this information would be very expensive, of course. But for
other reasons, we might want to keep a cache of branch dependencies.

Of course, in the case of

        A1--A2--A3--A4--C
                       /
        B1--B2--B3--B4.

the sequenced branches would still be like

        A1--A2--A3--A4--B1--B2--B3--C

unless you create the T1..T4 branches manually.

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