[PATCH] Fixlets and minor improvements for HACKING. (was: Document current policy for development with git.)

2010-08-06 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Thursday 29 July 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > +* There may be a number of longer-lived feature branches for > > > new developments. + They should be based off of a common > > > ancestor of all active branches to + which the feature should > > > be merged later. The next branch may se

Re: Document current policy for development with git.

2010-07-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Thursday 29 July 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, Eric, > > thanks for the review! Hello Ralf. Sorry for the late answer, I missed your message somehow. > > I like the wording. However, I'd also like to see a simple > > example, such as the one you provided me with in a previous ma

Re: Document current policy for development with git.

2010-07-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, Eric, thanks for the review! * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:34:32PM CEST: > At Tuesday 27 July 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > +* The git tree currently carries a number of branches: master for the > > + current development, and release branches named branch

Re: Document current policy for development with git.

2010-07-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/27/2010 01:43 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, all, > > I've rewritten the HACKING section on development with git a bit to > better reflect what I currently think is a good way to go on. Patch > for maint. Comments appreciated. > > FYI, I am waiting for regenerating the in-tree f

Re: Document current policy for development with git.

2010-07-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
r regenerating the in-tree files with Autoconf > 2.67 until the official tarballs have come out. See the "tangential issue" below about this... > Thanks, > Ralf > > Document current policy for development with git. > > * HACKING (Working with git): Over

Document current policy for development with git.

2010-07-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
have come out. Thanks, Ralf Document current policy for development with git. * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul. Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini. diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index ee85917..8facbeb 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -92,28 +