Re: Gitlab Migration

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 10:23:17 +0200
> Cc: <dgutov@yandex.ru>, <larsi@gnus.org>, <danflscr@gmail.com>,
>  <philipk@posteo.net>, <theo@thornhill.no>, <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
>  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> From: "Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com>
> 
> On Sun Aug 29, 2021 at 10:21 AM CEST, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I no longer remember the exact details, it was something we bumped
> > into during discussions when Emacs switched to Git. AFAIR, it had to
> > do with working on a feature branch and frequently rebasing it onto
> > the latest master (so that the feature branch doesn't diverge too
> > much), then later merging from the feature branch to master.
> 
> Hm, weird. I would like to see some reproducible evidence of this so
> that a deeper investigation can be done. I've used rebase thoroughly for
> many years on hundreds of projects without any such incident.

It is buried in this long discussion:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg01436.html

AFAIR, it had to do with "pull --rebase" as well, and the fact that
when doing the rebases in this case, Git "invents" anonymous
branches.  Or something.