Updates to powerpc.git
Grant Likely
grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Jul 10 02:20:08 EST 2008
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 02:08:32AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Kumar,
>
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:58:38 -0500 Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> "Ever" is such a strong word. Even Paul on occasion rebased his master
> branch. I see no reason why Ben could not run his master (or maybe
> better named "test") branch as a place that patches come and go and his
> "next" branch as something that never (or very rarely) gets rebased with
> commits progressing from master (test) to next when he is satisfied with
> them. People should then base further work in the "next" branch.
I was under the impression that there was some consensus that -next
branches should be used for unstable experiments. Am I mistaken?
g.
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