Good enough for Russ?  Then it's good enough for me...

This is clearly a case where the dependencies won't matter.

Thanks.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:

> Phillip Moore <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I'm about to submit another patch, but is it *really* necessary to
> > create a branch even for one-liners like this one?  Is there a problem
> > if I submit a patch against the head of origin/master?
>
> > Just trying to be lazy...
>
> I'm lazy like that all the time.  I usually just do small patches against
> my local master branch and push them from there.  When you do that,
> they'll show up in Gerrit as having a dependency on any previous
> as-yet-unmerged patches, which is what having a separate branch protects
> against.  But the current version of Gerrit is smart enough to be able to
> merge patches out of order despite supposed dependencies if there isn't a
> real dependency, so it mostly doesn't matter.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>

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