Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Oct 25 2024 - 17:07:34 EST


On Thu, 24 Oct 2024, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> So basically, all I need to do to satisfy your request is to add fixes
> branch that I push to that is pushed after it passes my tests (and not
> the urgent branch that is still being tested and may have bugs) and
> then have that be added to linux-next?

That is one option.

Alternatively do what I have been doing since ever: I have a couple of
'for-N+1/topic' branches, and then I have one 'for-N/fixes' branch. All of
them get automerged into 'for-next' branch which Stephen is pulling. Works
like a charm.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs