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| author | Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> | 2019-01-06 13:57:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> | 2019-01-06 14:00:56 +0000 |
| commit | f734c53eb61da117830f2dd6f6f3e6cd9280e39e (patch) | |
| tree | 99596b24486492f1aee11e9b8a10400ec4c39ea1 /README.md | |
| parent | ba8e155db2944ee28ff5a1fda5afe16c8a931e00 (diff) | |
| download | git-deps-f734c53eb61da117830f2dd6f6f3e6cd9280e39e.tar.gz | |
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Contents - [Use case 5: rewriting commit history](#use-case-5-rewriting-commit-history) - [Textual vs. semantic (in)dependence](#textual-vs-semantic-independence) - [Development / support / feedback](#development--support--feedback) -- [History](#history) +- [History](HISTORY.md) - [License](#license) @@ -314,38 +314,7 @@ Please see [the CONTRIBUTING file](CONTRIBUTING.md). History ------- -This tool was born from experiences at -[SUSEcon](http://www.susecon.com/) 2013, when I attempted to help a -colleague backport a bugfix in [OpenStack](http://www.openstack.org/) -[Nova](http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/) from the `master` -branch to a stable release branch. At first sight it looked like it -would only require a trivial `git cherry-pick`, but that immediately -revealed conflicts due to related code having changed in `master` -since the release was made. I manually found the underlying commit -which the bugfix required by using `git blame`, and tried another -`cherry-pick`. The same thing happened again. Very soon I found -myself in a quagmire of dependencies between commits, with no idea -whether the end was in sight. - -In coffee breaks during the ensuing openSUSE conference at the same -venue, I feverishly hacked together a prototype and it seemed to work. -Then normal life intervened, and no progress was made for another -year. - -Thanks to SUSE's generous [Hack Week](https://hackweek.suse.com/) -policy, I had the luxury of being able to spending some of early -January 2015 working to bring this tool to the next level. I -submitted a -[Hack Week project page](https://hackweek.suse.com/11/projects/366) -and -[announced my intentions on the `git` mailing list](http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/262000). - -Again in May 2018 I took advantage of another Hack Week to package -`git-deps` properly as a Python module in order to improve the -installation process. This was in preparation for demonstrating the -software at [a Meetup -event](https://www.meetup.com/londongit/events/248694943/) of the [Git -London User Group](https://www.meetup.com/londongit/). +Please see [the `HISTORY.md` file](HISTORY.md). License |