[kgb-maintainers] Bug#698133: Bug#698133: kgb-client: Should not resend the whole history when pushing branches with content merged from other branches

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:04:39 +0100, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:

> In the dpkg repository, we have multiple branches. I maintain the
> squeeze-backports branch... most of the commits in that branch are
> just commits merged from master. Those commits should not be reported...
> we already saw them. Instead it should just report the merge commit
> and commits specific to that branch.
> 
> The basic rule is "any commit that is already present in another branch
> should not be reported".

Right, this feature has been requested before, and dam has already
started to work on it.
 
> It's not to difficult to implement. git-commit-notice on alioth already
> has some logic to prevent this in the "report by mail" case. You can check
> it out if you want.

Thanks for the hint!
 

Cheers,
gregor

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