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Re: Experimental branches
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:40:59 -0800
- Subject: Re: Experimental branches
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On 01/15/2015 03:04 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:
> But I've already pushed several commits onto the upstream branch.
> Everything I've read about git says don't rebase if you've already
> pushed your branch upstream.
That's if you've actually got multiple developers coordinating.
For solo development on branches, rebasing minimizes the state
difference between trunk and the branch, and so is quite handy
(essential?) for preparing to submit a patch set for review.
r~