Updates to powerpc.git

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 2:34 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> I've pushed some updates to my version of powerpc.git.
>
> The tree itself is at:
>
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc.git
>
> It contains 3 branches:
>
>  - merge  : this is for merging with the current stable and doesn't
>             currently contain anything interesting
>
>  - master : this is our current "powerpc.git" tree, it may contain
>             various experimental stuff that may or may not go upstream
>             or may contain dependent patches that we rely on but that
>             are to be merged via some other tree.
>
>  - next   : this is the candidate stuff for linux-next and the next
>             merge window
>
> (Andrew, you -may- want to pull that instead of paulus one until
> he's back from vacation).
>
> Until today, master and next pointed to the same commit, which was
> the same as paulus master and powerpc-next branches. Tonight, I've
> pushed some patches to master that I intend to have in next, but
> I'd like to let them sit in master for a couple of days to make sure
> nothing is badly broken mostly and make sure I didn't screw up in
> my various patch monkeying operations.

What is your intent with the 'master' branch?  I hope you do NOT plan  
on ever rebasing it.  I assume if a patch gets into master and we drop  
it you'll do a git-revert of it?

- k