[U-Boot-Users] Revised custodian git writeup

[Wolfgang Denk]

Hello,

in message <47954A7D.4070507 at gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> I've rewritten the "Tips for maintaining custodian trees" section to 
> reflect Wolfgang's request that the "master" branch be used for patches 
> for him to pull.
> 
> Conceptually, this is very different from my previous recommendation / 
> methodology writeup.  In practice, however, it is a trivial change.  The 
> fundamental difference is to create a separate branch ("uboot") to track 
> the master repo and rebase the "master" branch against that, instead of 
> vice versa.

Rebasing the master branch, i. e. the one I'll be pullung from?

Are you sure that is a good idea? Note that I (and probably others)
will be pulling from that branch, and not only once!

Quote from the git-rebase man page:

...
NOTES
       When you rebase a branch, you are changing its history in a
       way that will cause problems for anyone who already has a copy
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       of the branch in their repository and tries to pull updates
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       from you. You should understand the implications of using git
       ^^^^^^^^^
       rebase on a repository that you share.
...



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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