Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:38, Chris Larson wrote: ... > Just the other day I was doing a conversion from svn to git for a > project and ran into a related issue. There was no merge metadata in > svn from the release branches back to master, so now I have to > painstakingly step through and make a

Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-26 Thread Chris Larson
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 09:27 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:23, Richard Purdie >> wrote: >> ... >> > FWIW, something like git cherry can identify your local changes so you >> > could apply them on top of master s

Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 09:47, Richard Purdie wrote: ... > To illustate the problem, if a change is needed in two different release > branches you'd commit to both and then cherry-pick both into master? No, I'd merge it into master. -- Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems E-

Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-26 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 09:27 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:23, Richard Purdie > wrote: > ... > > FWIW, something like git cherry can identify your local changes so you > > could apply them on top of master so there are other ways to make your > > usecase work... > > Th

Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:23, Richard Purdie wrote: ... > FWIW, something like git cherry can identify your local changes so you > could apply them on top of master so there are other ways to make your > usecase work... This breaks the value of using a SCM since you won't have a common parent.

Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-26 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 15:12 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 14:30, Richard Purdie > wrote: > ... > > I don't really see the point of this. Basically you're asking that every > > time there is a commit to the branch there is also a merge commit. You > > can just as easily ei

Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-25 Thread Chris Larson
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 14:30, Richard Purdie > wrote: > ... >> I don't really see the point of this. Basically you're asking that every >> time there is a commit to the branch there is also a merge commit. You >> can just as easily eithe

Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-23 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 14:30, Richard Purdie wrote: ... > I don't really see the point of this. Basically you're asking that every > time there is a commit to the branch there is also a merge commit. You > can just as easily either force a checkout of master, or merge against > master with a one

Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-23 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 13:41 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 20:33, Richard Purdie > wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 09:49 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> I noticed the 2011-1 branch today and it seems it is not fully merged > >> into master; this is a mistake since it w

Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-23 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 20:33, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 09:49 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> I noticed the 2011-1 branch today and it seems it is not fully merged >> into master; this is a mistake since it will create an upgrade path >> problem for users of it. > > Its a bra

Re: [OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-22 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 09:49 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I noticed the 2011-1 branch today and it seems it is not fully merged > into master; this is a mistake since it will create an upgrade path > problem for users of it. Its a branch, master continues on, that branch just gets fixes suitable

[OE-core] Branch management for OE-Core release

2011-09-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, I noticed the 2011-1 branch today and it seems it is not fully merged into master; this is a mistake since it will create an upgrade path problem for users of it. How this is going to be managed? -- Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br