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From: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: merging or rebasing for wip- branches?
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:54:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21003934-CB7B-4AFF-B765-534B06B0A2BF@vllmrt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnlqteax.fsf@elephly.net>



> On 31. Jul 2019, at 17:27, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> 
>> I’ve been working on some patches on the wip-haskell-updates branch. For now,
>> I’ve been making new commits, and occasionally merging master, not least
>> because forced push is rejected. But this makes the branch more messy than
>> necessary — do you generally not rebase the wip-branches, or if not, could I
>> be allowed to force-push to that branch?
> 
> You can delete the branch and then re-create it.  That’s equivalent to a
> force push and that’s totally fine for wip-* branches.  (Not so
> convenient, but I don’t know if we can relax the force push restriction
> easily.)
> 
> We only merge master into wip branches when we’ve already built the
> branch and we just want to touch it up a little without invalidating
> most of the builds.

Alright, thanks! That works for me.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-31 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-31 14:54 merging or rebasing for wip- branches? Robert Vollmert
2019-07-31 15:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-31 15:54   ` Robert Vollmert [this message]

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