* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:35:20PM CEST: > On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Ideally, you'd commit this to a temporary branch based off of the > > patch that introduced the regression, and merge that branch into > > maint. If we follow this strategy consistently, then there one can > > simply merge the temp branch into all branches that have the > > parent.
> Smart. Would make another nice addition for HACKING ;-) Already in HACKING, well, sort-of: * For bug fixes of long-standing bugs, it may be useful to commit them to a new branch based off of the commit that introduced the bug, and merge this bugfix branch into active branches that descend from the buggy commit. > BTW, how should I call that temporary branch? Dunno; whatever you like. fix-depcomp-tests? I name them fix-* in some projects. It doesn't really matter for anything but the merge log entry. Cheers, Ralf
