On Sex, 2012-05-18 at 18:35 +0200, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > I've been seeing this ugliness more and more to the point where I just > can't keep writing individual emails. Repeat after me: git is not CVS. > > When you have 2 branches with identical content and history (typically > right after branching or when the maintainer is updating all releases > together) then DO NOT manually redo fix for every branch. Do not even > use cherry-pick! Just *merge* for the love of whatever is holy to you. > > $ git checkout master (or fedpkg switch-branch) > ... do a fix, test, commit, build etc... > $ git checkout f17 > $ git merge master > $ git/fedpkg push && fedpkg build > DONE
this git process is describe here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers#Update_Your_Branches_.28if_desired.29 but should also be in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_HOWTO or maybe better, where : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_git_FAQ_for_package_maintainers#How_do_I_import_a_SRPM_package.3F > > So please. Merge as long as it makes sense (i.e. unless something needs > to be changed specifically in one branch). > > Thanks, > Thanks, -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
