Re: RFC: Run a dedicated hmm.git for 5.3

Jason Gunthorpe
2019-05-24T16:53:05Z

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 06:27:09PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Sure topic branch sounds fine, we do that all the time with various
> subsystems all over. We have ready made scripts for topic branches and
> applying pulls from all over, so we can even soak test everything in our
> integration tree. In case there's conflicts or just to make sure
> everything works, before we bake the topic branch into permanent history
> (the main drm.git repo just can't be rebased, too much going on and too
> many people involvd).

We don't rebase rdma.git either for the same reasons and nor does
netdev

So the usual flow for a shared topic branch is also no-rebase -
testing/etc needs to be done before things get applied to it.

Cheers,
Jason