Re: How to cope with patches sanely
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Sun February 3 2008 10:47:59 am Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Sat, 02 Feb 2008, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>
> > I was explaining how I would handle patches on top of upstream code. And
> > where you have to update the patches when the upstream code changes.
> > Rebase is exactly the process of "updating patches" while merge is really
> > "keep the old patch and add fixups patch to reconcile after conflicts".
>
> From what I remember of looking at rebase when I was evaluating git, isn't a
> side effect of it that it causes inconvenience for everyone that tracks your
> tree? That is, if you are going to use rebase on a tree, it is generally a
> private tree used on only one of your own machines, rather than something
> that others pull from as well?
Yes it is. One needs to make it clear that a given branch is going to be
rebased and can't be used for merging.
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