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From: "Peter Harris" <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
To: "Junichi Uekawa" <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Main branch being maintained with 'git am', how do mere mortals interact without too much conflicts?
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:47:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eaa105840901100647y70b53ae0w495af69b7281cae7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdsntnyd.dancerj%dancer@netfort.gr.jp>

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> I am thinking of recommending the users to create a branch
...
> and throw away their branches when they are included upstream.

Yes, with a patch based workflow, this is almost required; all of the
commits will at least have different committer information.

There's nothing wrong with this approach.

> Something tells me the problem is that I'm probably using a workflow
> that resembles SVN too much, and users aren't used to branches yet.
> Has anybody found this to be a problem, or better yet, is there a
> better workflow?

If you need the commits to be identical, and you don't mind your email
consisting of a binary blob attachment, you can ask your contributors
to send you a bundle instead of a series of patches. "git help bundle"
for details.

Peter Harris

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-10 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-10 11:11 Main branch being maintained with 'git am', how do mere mortals interact without too much conflicts? Junichi Uekawa
2009-01-10 14:47 ` Peter Harris [this message]
2009-01-10 16:29   ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-01-10 14:47 ` Santi Béjar
2009-01-10 16:18 ` Sitaram Chamarty

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