[U-Boot] U-Boot git usage model

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Albert,

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:14:23 -0600, Stephen Warren
> <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>
>> This actually turns out to be less work for custodians if there aren't
>> any dependencies between patch series, since whenever you send a pull
>> request right now, you do:
>>
>> a) Fetch latest upstream.
>> b) Rebase onto it.
>> c) Send pull request.
>
> Uh, no, you don't rebase. I've learnt that well. :)

Yes, I learn't that the hard way :)

> But I suspect the Wiki page is still lagging behind.

Yes because, to some extent at least, maintainers have a certain
amount of latitude in how they manage their own repository. The whole
rebase against master theory came about, I think, to avoid the
maintainer repositories being littered with merge commits (which I
assume adds more merge commits to mainline). I personally don't have
an issue with merge commits - YMMV

Regards,

Graeme