On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 21:43, Richard Shaw wrote: [...] > This would take care of most of the complains about people using "git merge > master" across release branches (even though that's the workflow documented > in the wiki). I know I CAN use git cherry-pick but I've never used it > before and again, I'm not a program. Almost everything I've learned about > git is through Fedora package maintenance and some small pull requests for > minor build fixes with packages I maintain. > > The hard part for me is maintaining EL 6/7 branches. I know there are a lot > of complaints about using %if conditionals in specs to have one spec file > for all Fedora and EPEL releases and I agree when it gets to be too much it > makes the spec very unreadable especially by others (proven packagers) that > may have to step in and make changes. If stream branches could somehow make > this easier that would be great.
I found the "merging upwards" workflow from gitworkflows(7) quite useful for Fedora for leaf packages that can be updated across the board while retaining some small differences between branches like changelogs. Branches remain mergeable and you can easily remove any conditionals and keep cruft limited to older branches. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
