Re: master c6f03ed: Fix a problem in url.el without GnuTLS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:46:12 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > perhaps we need to radically rethink
> > our recommended project workflow, like not base it on merges but on
> > rebase, or push fixes to master and then cherry-pick them to the
> > release branch, or something else
> 
> Part of the problem is the mundane business of maintaining ChangeLogs by 
> hand, 
> an error-prone process with merges.  We're planning to fix this (currently 
> scheduled for next month) by generating ChangeLogs automatically.  Perhaps 
> once 
> we've done that the remaining problems with merging will be so small that we 
> can 
> just live with them.

I'm not sure.  The problem of using incorrect Git commands in the case
that triggered this discussion was unrelated to ChangeLogs.

> (The particular problem Ted ran into seems pretty complicated; I'm
> not sure it's a good use case for us when designing our development
> workflow.)

People are running into problems all over.  It's not just Ted and not
just that particular push.

> More fundamentally there's the issue of how much we want commits to be 
> serialized.  That is, do we want development history to look as if it was 
> done 
> one commit at a time in a single branch?  If so, merges are not the way to 
> go, 
> because they're DAG-based.

That's what I was asking, in different words.