Re: Merging back fixup commits

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Max Bowsher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greg Ward wrote:
>> I just want to be able to specify "fewer synthetic changesets even if
>> that makes history a tad dubious by making normal commits look like
>> dummy merges" over "more synthetic changesets in order to avoid making
>> normal commits look like dummy merges".
>
> Um. I'm afraid we have a disagreement here. My feeling is that cvs2svn
> should assiduously avoid mixing its synthetic changes into
> human-attributed changesets. Moreso, given how bafflingly configurable
> cvs2svn is already, I seek to avoid adding options whenever possible.

Fair enough.

> Therefore, if you want to get your "eliminate synthetic changesets by
> adding extra merges to real changesets which happen to be in the right
> place in the tree" option into trunk, you'll have to Michael/Oswald that
> it's a good idea. - Sorry :-/

OK.  When I get some time, I'll see about refactoring HgOutputOption
so that I can implement my desired policy in a subclass, and change
the default.  Unlikely to happen any time soon.

Greg

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