powerpc.git status

[Kumar Gala]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 07:29 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>
>>> While paul was away, I've been taking care of the tree, so currently
>>> up to date is my git at:
>>>
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc.git
>>>
>>> I've pushed a batch of stuff to the "master" branch. I haven't yet
>>> updated the "next" branch, I'm going to let master settle a day or  
>>> two
>>> first just in case.
>>>
>>> I'll update patchwork status asap.
>>
>> Ben, remind me the difference between your 'master' and 'next'
>> branches?  Will you rebase 'master'?
>
> Well, mostly they are the same, let's say that I'm trying to avoid
> rebasing both, but if shit happens, it's better if master gets rebased
> and not next though it's a bit arbitrary and Im not sure it's really
> useful in practice.

Its useful to not rebase a branch you expect people to send you  
patches against and sub-maintainers are using to build tree's  
against.  It sounds like 'next' is that branch.

- k