Just to be clear, are we discussing the process of uprev'ing the feature development branch with the latest from the trunk from time to time, or making the final merge of the feature branch onto the trunk?
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > I haven't done a bit piece of work in the ASF code repo since the > migration to git; though I have done it in the svn era. > > > Currently with private git repos > -anyone gets SCM control of their source > -you can commit for your own reasons (about to make a change, want a > private jenkins run, ...) and gain from having many small checkins. More > succinctly: if you aren't checking in your work 2+ times a day —why not? > -rebasing a painful necessity on personal, private branches to keep the > final patch to hadoop git a single diff > > With the private git process that's the defacto standard, we lose history > anyway. I know what I've done and somewhere there's a tag in my own github > repo of my work to create a JIRA. But we don't always need that entire > history of "trying to debug kerberos", "typo in exception", and other stuff > that accrues during the work. > > I think therefore that I'm in favour of big squash commits. What we could > do is extend that with a policy of > > > 1. tag the final commit used to make the patch, something like > tag_HADOOP-8192. The tag ensures that the history isn't gc'd > 2. Delete the branch (keeps the #of branches down) > 3. In the JIRA, include the name of the tag and the git commit number > in the comments. Someone curious can rebuild that history > >
