[dev] How to develop changes in a series

Kendall Nelson kennelson11 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 21:55:32 UTC 2018


Thanks for mentioning the contributor guide!

I'll happily review any patches you have for that section. I'm sure Ildiko
would be happy to as well.

-Kendall (diablo_rojo)

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:41 PM William M Edmonds <edmondsw at us.ibm.com>
wrote:

> Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote on 12/05/2018 02:52:28 PM:
> > On 2018-12-05 14:48:37 -0500 (-0500), William M Edmonds wrote:
> > > Eric Fried <openstack at fried.cc> wrote on 12/05/2018 12:18:37 PM:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > But I want to edit 1b2c453, while leaving ebb3505 properly stacked on
> > > > top of it. Here I use a tool called `git restack` (run `pip install
> > > > git-restack` to install it).
> > >
> > > It's worth noting that you can just use `git rebase` [1], you don't
> have to
> > > use git-restack. This is why later you're using `git rebase
> --continue`,
> > > because git-restack is actually using rebase under the covers.
> > >
> > > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1186535/how-to-modify-a-
> > specified-commit
> >
> > You can, however what git-restack does for you is figure out which
> > commit to rebase on top of so that you don't inadvertently rebase
> > your stack of changes onto a newer branch state and then make things
> > harder on reviewers.
> > --
> > Jeremy Stanley
>
> Ah, that's good to know.
>
> Also, found this existing documentation [2] if someone wants to propose an
> update or link from another location. Note that it doesn't currently
> mention git-restack, just rebase.
>
> [2]
> https://docs.openstack.org/contributors/code-and-documentation/patch-best-practices.html#how-to-handle-chains
>
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