Hi Nigel,

The log (and the blame log) should show the times of the commit, regardless of whether you merge the branch into master or rebase your branch onto master at the end.

When you rebase your commits you can also get the rebase time. eg. for your last rebased commit:
$ git show 4fa192b0 --format=fuller
The author+date pair is the person who originally wrote the code (rather: who made the original commit), the commit+date pair is set by whoever rebased/cherry-picked/etc. it last.

-Markus


PS: Just to clarify - if you deliberately use branches to do isolated feature development, merging is absolutely fine.

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From: cctbxbb-bounces@phenix-online.org [cctbxbb-bounces@phenix-online.org] on behalf of Nigel Moriarty [nwmoriarty@lbl.gov]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 17:41
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Subject: Re: [cctbxbb] Making branches by accident

Markus

I was a non-rebaser but I have set it to true on my second machine. So my question is regardind branches. I have made a branch, made some changes and merged the master into the branch. I will make some more changes during testing. I assume that I merge into the master at some point. Will the commits appear in the log based on the time of the merge or the time I committed in the branch?

Cheers

Nigel

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On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:14 AM, <markus.gerstel@diamond.ac.uk<mailto:markus.gerstel@diamond.ac.uk>> wrote:
I use a custom prompt so I can see what is going on when I am in a git repository folder.

This is the code one could add to their ~/.bashrc:
https://gist.github.com/Anthchirp/dfc9a4382f8dfc9a97fe1039c9e6789a

This is what it looks like:
https://postimg.org/image/8c9h72qwd/

This is what happens in the image:
* yellow brackets indicate you are in git territory, and contain the current branch name
* red branch name = uncommitted changes in repository
* positive number: number of commits the local repository is ahead of the remote repository
* the 'git pull' command causes an implicit merge commit, which I undo with the next command
* negative number: number of commits the local repository is behind the remote repository
* both negative and positive number: branches have diverged

Maybe someone finds it useful.

-Markus


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From: cctbxbb-bounces@phenix-online.org<mailto:cctbxbb-bounces@phenix-online.org> [cctbxbb-bounces@phenix-online.org<mailto:cctbxbb-bounces@phenix-online.org>] on behalf of Pavel Afonine [pafonine@lbl.gov<mailto:pafonine@lbl.gov>]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 18:24
To: cctbxbb@phenix-online.org<mailto:cctbxbb@phenix-online.org>
Subject: Re: [cctbxbb] Making branches by accident

This happened to me a few times now, and just double-checked that my .gitconfig contains "rebase = true". Let's see if it happens again..
Pavel

On 12/7/16 00:02, Graeme.Winter@diamond.ac.uk<mailto:Graeme.Winter@diamond.ac.uk><mailto:Graeme.Winter@diamond.ac.uk<mailto:Graeme.Winter@diamond.ac.uk>> wrote:
Morning all

I am seeing a certain amount of “Merge branch 'master' of github.com:cctbx/cctbx_project” coming through on the commits – this usually means you did not do a git pull –rebase before the git push. This can be set to the default by using the spell Markus sent out

git config --global pull.rebase true

This will need to be done on each machine you push from, else getting the habit of doing a git pull –rebase before push is a good one.

We have had this on and off with DIALS but it tends to pass easily enough.

What bad happens? Nothing really but the history becomes confusing…

So:  may be worth checking that you have the pull.rebase thing set?

Cheerio Graeme



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