Ah, yes, that's the right way. For some reason I had temporarily
got it into my head that a Gitorious merge request worked at repo
level, not branch level.

Thanks,

Ciaran

> 
> Rather than whole repos, you can just use branches.
> 
> Create topic branches (aka feature branches) for each bug you want to
> fix and see merged (I use the track ticket number, so ticket-5555 is my
> bugfix branch for #5555 in Trac), and then request a merge from that
> branch in your cloned repository to the appropriate branch in the dev
> repository.
> 
> If it takes a long time for one of the core committers to get to your
> bugfix but development of the dev branches keeps moving forward, you
> should occasionally merge those changes into your bugfix branch. That
> way when Evan or whoever looks at the merge request, the only ones "to
> be merged" are the appropriate commits on your topic branch, bypassing
> the need for the Control Yourself, Inc. team to be cherry picking in the
> first place.
> 
> AFAIK, this is the *intended* workflow that Evan described earlier[0],
> but of course I could also be projecting there, although this is what
> I'm doing and it does seem to work very well, and is
> sans-cherry-picking. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> -Meitar Moscovitz
> Personal: http://maymay.net
> Professional: http://MeitarMoscovitz.com
> 
> EXTERNAL REFERENCES:
> 
> [0] http://mail.laconi.ca/pipermail/laconica-dev/2009-January/000871.html
> 

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