Re: [Plplot-devel] A possible design of our new Fortran binding

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2015-05-25 09:33-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Or
> you also have the option of rebasing so you end up effectively with
>
> master: ... A-B-C-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z
>                                    \
> f95update:                          G-H-I
>
> where I have used different letters for the 3 extra commits to show
> that the rebase has changed those commits (since each commit refers to
> a complete file system snapshot) from what they were before.  But in
> this case
>
> git checkout f95update
> git format-patch G^
>
> would give you the same patch file (except for the commit identity
> associated with each of the 3 commits) that you produced before.

Oops.  I should have added the same patch file would be produced
assuming the rebase process is a clean one (i.e., there are no conflicts
to resolve between your changes and the additional changes done by
rebasing on master).

Alan
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