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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Custodian branch base commits
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:55:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5090228A.7090606@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121030185037.C20B22005D3@gemini.denx.de>

On 10/30/2012 12:50 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Stephen Warren,
> 
> In message <50900FED.6040508@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>>
>> # (in u-boot-tegra.git, assuming everything is merged already)
>> git checkout master
>> git reset --hard u-boot/master
> 
> What would this specific command sequence be good for? [And what
> exactly is "u-boot/master" supposed to be?]

Starting a new branch of development from something in the upstream
repository. Here's we're re-using existing branch name "master" for the
new branch, hence "git reset" rather than "git checkout -b". Resetting
the branch and essentially starting from scratch means creating much
less of a rats-nest of merges in downstream repos.

u-boot/master is the standard git nomenclature for remote u-boot
(assumed to point at git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git) branch master.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-30 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-30 17:35 [U-Boot] Custodian branch base commits Stephen Warren
2012-10-30 18:50 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-10-30 18:55   ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2012-10-30 20:47     ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-10-30 21:10       ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-30 22:06         ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-10-30 22:20           ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-18  1:57             ` Jerry Van Baren
2012-10-30 21:19 ` Tom Rini
2012-10-31 16:56   ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-03 11:49     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-11-05 17:17       ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-05 19:39         ` Albert ARIBAUD

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