From: nalaginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merging stable-2.0 into master
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:06:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1351649206.2208.34.camel@Renee-desktop.suse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87625rogng.fsf@tines.lan>
For cautious, anyone tried if 'master' could be compiled/run
successfully?
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 16:21 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've started the process of merging stable-2.0 into master. It's an
> unusually large merge (50 commits, since July 28), and I found 'git
> merge' too overwhelming to deal with in one piece, so for now I've been
> applying one commit at a time, adapting them as needed with frequent
> runs of 'make check'. So far I've worked through 31 out of 50.
>
> My question is: after I've finished adapting and applying all of the
> commits, is it okay to simply push them to master? Or is it worthwhile
> to instead do the following?
>
> 1. Save a copy of the files that changed from adapting and applying
> all of the commits from stable-2.0.
> 2. git reset --hard origin/master
> 3. git merge origin/stable-2.0
> (making sure that nothing new has been pushed to stable-2.0)
> 4. Compare the auto-merged files with the copies from step 1.
> 5. Use the copies from step 1 to resolve merge conflicts.
> 6. Commit the merge
>
> I guess it's a question of how we want the commit history to look,
> and how it will affect future merges.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Mark
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-31 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-30 20:21 Merging stable-2.0 into master Mark H Weaver
2012-10-31 2:06 ` nalaginrut [this message]
2012-10-31 3:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-02 22:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-03 7:25 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-03 14:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
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