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From: Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: davidb@quicinc.com, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dividing up a large merge.
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:47:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090715144739.GA14846@cthulhu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090715122828.GA6570@mit.edu>

* Theodore Tso (tytso@mit.edu) [090715 08:28]:
> And, if you believe your release cycle is going to run for more than,
> say, 2-3 months, I suggest that you keep things in a single linear
> patch stream.  You can keep the patch series under git control, and
> then rebase periodically; I'd suggest rebasing once a mainline release
> happens (i.e., when 2.6.X is released), and then again after most of
> the major changes have been merged in and the tree has settled down
> (i.e., after 2.6.X-rc2 or 2.6.X-rc3).

or use TopGit

http://repo.or.cz/w/topgit.git

        --larry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-15 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-14 23:32 Dividing up a large merge davidb
2009-07-15  0:16 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-07-15  0:29   ` davidb
2009-07-15  0:34     ` Avery Pennarun
2009-07-15  1:19       ` davidb
2009-07-15  1:29         ` Douglas Campos
2009-07-15  1:32         ` Avery Pennarun
2009-07-15 12:28     ` Theodore Tso
2009-07-15 13:39       ` Jakub Narebski
2009-07-15 16:07         ` Theodore Tso
2009-07-15 14:47       ` Larry D'Anna [this message]
2009-07-15 18:57     ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-07-15 21:01       ` davidb

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