Re: [alsa-devel] HG -> GIT migration
From: Rene Herman
Date: Wed May 21 2008 - 10:38:26 EST
On 21-05-08 15:48, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Rene Herman wrote:
It's "worse" than that; rebasing is designed for a _private_ development
model. git-rebase is a very handy tool for people like myself (people
without a downstream that is) and it basically enables the quilt model
of a stack of patches on top of git but public trees that have people
pulling from them should generally not rebase or everyone who _is_
pulling finds a different tree each time.
I don't see big obstacles with this model. You can do changes in your
local tree and when 'git pull' fails from the subsystem tree, pull new
subsystem tree to a new branch and do rebasing in your local tree, too.
Rebasing can keep the subsystem tree more clean I think. It's only
about to settle an appropriate workflow.
I'm also still frequently trying to figure out an/the efficient way of
using GIT but it does seem it's not just a matter of "pure downstream"
(which I do believe ALSA has few enough of to not make this be a huge
problem). For example linux-next is also going to want to pull in ALSA
and say it does, finds a trivial conflict with the trivial tree that it
also pulls in and fixes things up. If you rebase that which linux-next
pulls from I believe it will have to redo the fix next time it pulls
from you since it's getting all those new changesets.
I guess this can be avoided by just not rebasing that which linux-next
is pulling... and I in fact don't even know if linux-next does any
conflict resolution itself, trivial or otherwise.
<shrug>
I'll see how things work out.
Rene.
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