From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:47:04 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Please pull u-boot-mpc83xx.git mpc83xx branch In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:10:08 EDT." <46C984A0.5030602@smiths-aerospace.com> Message-ID: <20070820134704.AC0D024040@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de In message <46C984A0.5030602@smiths-aerospace.com> you wrote: > > Based on your request above, it would appear that we have not convinced > you that pulling from a branch is a Good Thing[tm]. If that is the > case, the alternate technique I would advocate would be... Pulling from a branch is OK with me, iff * I know about it * the branch to pull from remains static, i. e. it doesn't change with every other pull request. However, I think that what I pull from is considered themost stable, best tested branch, so to me it makes sense if this is the "trunk" where everybody else is pulling from who is interested in a certain tree. > An argument for using the "master" branch is that outstanding patches > are easier to find and view via gitweb. Figuring out where to click to > view a branch is not obvious, it requires scrolling down to the bottom > of the page. We've had that issue on the email list and I have to > sympathize because it threw me for a minute myself the first time I > tried to see changes that were in a branch. That's my thinking - if you tell someone "get this from the xxx custodian repo", they will most not be looking for branches. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.