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Re: Question about your git habits

From
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date
Feb 23, 2008, 09:10 UTC
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<20080223091013.GB12161@uranus.ravnborg.org>
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<200802221837.37680.chase.venters@clientec.com>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:37:14PM -0600, Chase Venters wrote:
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> I've been making myself more familiar with git lately and I'm curious what 
> habits others have adopted. (I know there are a few documents in circulation 
> that deal with using git to work on the kernel but I don't think this has 
> been specifically covered).
> 
> My question is: If you're working on multiple things at once, do you tend to 
> clone the entire repository repeatedly into a series of separate working 
> directories and do your work there, then pull that work (possibly comprising 
> a series of "temporary" commits) back into a separate local master 
> respository with --squash, either into "master" or into a branch containing 
> the new feature?

The simple (for me) workflow I use is to create a clone of the kernel for each 'topic' I work on. So at the same time I may have one or maybe up to five clones of the kernel.

When I want to combine thing I use git format-patch and git am. Often there is some amount of editing done before combining stuff especially for larger changes where the first in the serie is often preparational work that were identified in random order when I did the inital work.

	Sam
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