Re: [alsa-devel] HG -> GIT migration

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu May 22 2008 - 19:40:56 EST


Hi Rene,

On Thu, 22 May 2008 22:43:04 +0200 Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 22-05-08 03:24, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>
> > Linux-next is rebuilt every day based on Linus' current kernel. I merge
> > all the trees I have been told about and fixup minor conflicts (sometimes
> > reverting commits, sometimes applying patches). So everyday, linux-next
> > is completely new. I do not care if the trees I am merging get rebased.
>
> This means you're going to redo all those (same) minor conflict fixups
> each day again, doesn't it? Or do you pass the fixups back to (one of)
> the conflicting trees?

I send email about them and most go away after a day or so i.e. something
changes to make the conflicts go away. However, the saving grace here is
"git rerere" which remembers these conflicts and their resolutions for me
so I normally only have to fix them once.

> > Does that answer your question?
>
> But yes, it does, thanks.

OK, good.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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