[Buildroot] OT: git workflow question

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Le Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:53:24 +0000 (UTC),
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> a ?crit :

> Since I had only changed the one file (and those changes had
> been merged into the master repository) I didn't bother trying
> to resolve the conflict -- I just blew away my repository and
> did a 'clone'.
> 
> Here's my question: why was there a conflict?

Not sure why, Peter will probably give an explanation.

> Is this how git is supposed to work?

No. You should have made your changes in a separate branch instead of a
master branch. Then, you submit your patches. When they are merged, you
do "git pull" in your master branch. And then "git branch -d
yourbranch". If everything has been merged, "git branch -d" will
succeed, otherwise it will fail (and you can use "git branch -D" to
remove a branch that hasn't been merged).

This is at least how I'm contributing to Buildroot. Not necessarly the
cleanest way, I'm no git expert.

Thomas
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