Re: [GIT PULL] 9p changes fro merge window

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Eric,

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What's the preferred maintainer workflow?  I had been fetching and then rebasing, which
> seemed to keep my shortlog clean of merge commits and the outstanding patches
> towards the top.  Should I just be pulling from upstream and not caring about the merge
> commits?

I don't know if mine is the preferred workflow but what I usually do is:

  1. Send a pull request to Linus in a separate throw-away branch
      that's an exact copy of my "next" branch.

  2. Wait until -rc1 is out and git reset my "next" branch to that.

  3. Apply patches on top of the "next" branch. I never rebase or
      do merges from Linus tree to the branch.

  4. Once the merge window opens, goto 1.

[ Actually, I sometimes have multiple "next" topic branches if there's a risk
  that I need to back out some of the changes from linux-next in the middle
   of the merge cycle. ]

                        Pekka
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