From: Jimmy Thrasibule Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:00:29 GMT Subject: Re: Git and Quilt Message-ID: <1341838829.10119.42.camel@sysadmin> In-Reply-To: <20120709162042.0149100574d2d04497a952fc@domain007.com> > Isn't what you're doing a perfect fit for rebasing [1]? > That is, you keep your changes as a series of commits on top of your > "upstream" branch and each time you're about to bring upstream changes > in, you rebase your local branch on top on the updated upstream branch. > > 1. http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Rebasing Yes it can do the work, but I afraid that it gets messy in a collaborative work as said at the end of the article. I prefer to maintain my patches using Quilt so everything is clear. -- Jimmy