[U-Boot] Custodian branch base commits

[Stephen Warren]

On 10/30/2012 04:06 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Stephen Warren,
> 
> In message <5090423C.5070605 at wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>>
>>>>>> git checkout master
>>>>>> git reset --hard u-boot/master
> ...
>>> Why don't you do just
>>> 	git branch -D master
>>> 	git checkout -b master u-boot/master
>>> instead?
>>
>> That would work identically. The exact git commands to do this really
>> aren't the point of this conversation.
> 
> Maybe not for you.  But I was trying to understand what you are doing,
> and I find your approach difficult to read.  A "git reset --hard" is
> nothign I ever do in the normal course of actions.
> 
>>> BTW - why are you doing this on the "master" branch?  Any other branch
>>> name appears more appropriate to me for such work?
>>
>> Well, the U-Boot wiki tells all custodians to use a branch named master,
>> and all the custodian repos I've needed to look at follow this convention.
> 
> You are supposed to _never_ reset or rebase the master branch.

I assume that statement is conditionalized by "within the U-Boot
process" and "in the main u-boot.git repository"; it's not necessarily
required to be true just due to use of git.

Well, even in recent history, that hasn't been actual practice. The wiki
even explicitly tells you to rebase:

http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/CustodianGitTrees

Who owns updating that? I could take a stab, but since I'm pretty new to
U-Boot development, not a custodian, and pushing for changes, I'm
probably not the best person to re-write it, and least not without a
code-review/patch-based process.

>>>> u-boot/master is the standard git nomenclature for remote u-boot
>>>> (assumed to point at git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git) branch master.
>>>
>>> standard git nomenclature? Do you happen to have a pointer for me?
>>
>> http://git-scm.com/book/ch3-5.html
>>
>> First sentence of the second paragraph in the body text.
> 
> Ummm... this does not exactly mention that it is considered standard
> that "u-boot" refers to git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git .  Please keep in
> mind that others might use different names - your original posting did
> not explain your assumptions.

Oh, I thought you were talking about the syntax, not the exact names of
remotes and branches.