rethinking patch management with GIT / topgit

Enrico Weigelt weigelt at metux.de
Wed Mar 24 00:45:41 UTC 2010


Thomas Koch wrote:

> 1) checkout new patch branches from the top of the old patch branches and 
> merge upstream into each of them

Creates ugly history (many loops, hard to review, cherry-pick, etc)
and has _great_ chance of conflicts, so much more manual work (quite
as much as manual patchsets).


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