Hi Harald, Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> can do, even though I believe it is by far not the best tool to do so. > The problem is that I would have to use one local branch per feature > (i.e. lots of local branches that need to be kept in sync), and even > then any incremental changes/fixes to one particular feature are visible > in the commitlog (and thus result in changelog pollution). > > My best experience so far really is quilt for maintaining patchsets. > You can keep a large number of patches, easily switch between them and > keep your modifications organized per-feature, rather than in the > chronological commit order of a revision control system. > > So what I can probably do is to continue to use quilt up to the point > where I'd want to send something to a mailinglist, and then put into a > local git branch, export the patch from there and send it to the list. > > However, any further change to that patch based on feedback from the > list would again go into the quilt tree, I'd have to start with a clean > 'origin' u-boot git tree and commit the modified change into the git > tree. Otherwise we start having all the commit messages (like 'changed > coding style according to mailinglist feedback') in the code, even > _before_ that code was ever merged into the respective mainline git > tree. > > So is this really the preferred workflow? How are others dealing with > this? How to avoid commitlog pollution? I never used quilt, but I believe stacked git (stgit) implements more or less the same behavior on top of git. Best regards Markus Klotzbuecher -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
