On Monday 28 November 2011 19:02:20 Graeme Russ wrote: > > cd Source/U-Boot/x86 (my local version of the u-boot-x86 repo) > > git fetch u-boot (as per the 'new' methodology of not having a seperate > > u-boot branch) > > git checkout master > > git rebase u-boot/master > > git push ssh://[email protected]/u-boot-x86 > > git checkout next > > git rebase master > > git push ssh://[email protected]/u-boot-x86
ok, i've read the official recommended workflow [1]. it seems to contradict
itself. for example, it starts with:
Philosophy of custodian trees
... it is the custodian's responsibility to provide a permanently
accessible, consistent view of his repository to users.
i read that as saying "no rewriting of published history". but later on it
says to do just that:
Tips for maintaining custodian trees
- Keep in sync with the upstream repository by pulling it.
- Rebase the master, testing and any "work in progress" branches to the
${upstream}/master remote branch.
- Push the appropriate branch(es) to the denx.de repo:
- Pushing the testing and/or rebased master branches often
requires
the -f force flag. This is because the state/content/order of
the
patches in the branch changed due to the rebase operations.
so i guess your example workflow is fine, you just need to use the --force
flag.
and you should specify the branches to push rather than leaving that to be
implicit. so change:
git push ssh://[email protected]/u-boot-x86
to:
git push --force ssh://[email protected]/u-boot-x86 next
git push --force ssh://[email protected]/u-boot-x86 master
> Do the above periodically so anyone working off u-boot-x86 can keep
> up-to-date
the expected behavior of downstream users is apparently to always fetch+rebase
rather than fetch+merge (what "pull" normally does). this is pretty unusual
(and in most git circles, unforgivable as the "default" workflow). but as i'm
not a consumer of any of these trees except Wolfgang's, i'm not going to argue
over it. so your x86 users have to do (assuming they've cloned your tree):
git fetch
git rebase origin/master
instead of the more normal:
git pull
-mike
[1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/CustodianGitTrees
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