From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 05:32:32 -0700 Subject: [GIT PULL] omap fixes against v3.11-rc5 In-Reply-To: References: <20130816071958.GB7656@atomide.com> Message-ID: <20130820123232.GN7656@atomide.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org * Olof Johansson [130816 15:05]: > > Our current fixes branch is based on -rc4, and I didn't see any of > these commits in linux-next, so I took the liberty to rebase them back > onto our current branch. > > I.e. pulled, but rebased. Thanks no problem at my end. But to avoid future confusion, what's the reasoning for rebasing? AFAIK, pulling this in would have just automatically updated your branch to -rc5, no? The only time where pulling in a branch based on a later mainline commit would cause problems is if your branch is based on another series of patches you want to send separately as then you'd get all the commits between -rc4 and -rc5 when doing the pull request. Probably nothing new in this for your, but FYI, you can use pulling or merging branches as a way of updating your publick branches without rebasing or adding extra merge commits while keeping the branch pullable. Let's assume you have arm-soc/fixes based on -rc4, and -rc5 comes out: $ git checkout -b my-fixes-of-the-week v3.11-rc5 # apply pending patches ... $ git checkout arm-soc/fixes $ git merge my-fixes-of-the-week And then you have essentially fast forwarded your arm-soc/fixes to -rc5 and it stays pullable ;) Regards, Tony