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authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2018-02-18 11:32:21 +0000
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2018-06-16 16:06:58 +0100
commit7faed22010cacb9bd7cc029b860840947e03bf8a (patch)
treece6da313692a8b4cbc3718976fa477ff2cf2193c /NOTES.git-debrebase
parent4f22209a590da904276c3a52643473f44cc22d18 (diff)
git-debrebase: Introduce term `anchor'
And replace `breakwater merge' and `breakwater upstream merge' everywhere. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'NOTES.git-debrebase')
-rw-r--r--NOTES.git-debrebase18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/NOTES.git-debrebase b/NOTES.git-debrebase
index d2b88b6..b4ffdda 100644
--- a/NOTES.git-debrebase
+++ b/NOTES.git-debrebase
@@ -44,29 +44,29 @@ overall format
[git-debrebase: split mixed commit, debian part]
[git-debrebase: split mixed commit, upstream-part]
[git-debrebase: convert dgit import, debian changes]
-[git-debrebase breakwater: convert dgit import, upstream changes]
+[git-debrebase anchor: convert dgit import, upstream changes]
[git-debrebase upstream-combine . PIECE[ PIECE...]: new upstream]
-[git-debrebase breakwater: new upstream NEW-UPSTREAM-VERSION, merge]
+[git-debrebase anchor: new upstream NEW-UPSTREAM-VERSION, merge]
[git-debrebase: new upstream NEW-UPSTREAM-VERSION, changelog]
[git-debrebase convert-from-gbp: drop patches]
-[git-debrebase breakwater: declare upstream]
+[git-debrebase anchor: declare upstream]
[git-debrebase pseudomerge: stitch]
[git-debrebase convert-to-gbp: commit patches]
m{^\[git-debrebase (?:\w*-)?upstream combine \.((?: $extra_orig_namepart_re)+)\]}
-Every breakwater commit must be a merge. In principle, this is not
+Every anchor commit must be a merge. In principle, this is not
necessary. After all, we are relying on the
- [git-debrebase breakwater: ...]
-commit message annotation in "declare" breakwater merges (which
-do not have any upstream changes), to distinguish those breakwater
+ [git-debrebase anchor: ...]
+commit message annotation in "declare" anchor merges (which
+do not have any upstream changes), to distinguish those anchor
merges from ordinary pseudomerges (which we might just try to strip).
However, the user is going to be doing git-rebase a lot. We really
-don't want them to rewrite a breakwater base commit. git-rebase
+don't want them to rewrite an anchor commit. git-rebase
trips up on merges, so that is a useful safety catch.
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ import from gbp
new breakwater is
old HEAD
commit to remove d/patches
- breakwater pseudomerge with upstream
+ anchor merge with upstream
"rebase" of pq branch, each commit with d/patches stripped
]