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Re: Experimental branches
- From: Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
- Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, 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 11:26:17 -0800
- Subject: Re: Experimental branches
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> 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.
>
> Yes. I already had a collaborator pull from my branch, and I didn't
> want to disrupt him.
Don't worry about me! :-)
I know git well enough now to cope.
[Which isn't to dismiss your point, which is valid,
but if it's just me ...]