Re: git pull on Linux/ACPI release tree

I'll try to update the using-topic-branches document to capture this. Some of the problem is that it doesn't quite capture what I'm doing with my test/release branches.

My release branch really is just used as a transfer point to Linus. I usually[1] don't leave patches sitting in "release" for long enough that I'll be tempted to merge in from Linus ... once I decide that some patches are ready to go to Linus I'll update "release" from Linus (which will be a fast-forward, so no history) merge in the topic branches, do one final sanity build, push to kernel.org and send the "please pull" e-mail.

The huge majority of my "automatic update from upstream" merges go into my test branch ... which never becomes part of the real history as I never ask Linus to pull from it.

-Tony

[1] Sometimes I goof on this because I forget that I've applied a trivial patch directly to the release branch without going through a topic branch. I think I'll fix my update script to check for this case.