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Re: Addendum to "MaintNotes"

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 22, 2007, 10:42 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Thanks for writing this, Junio. It is always interesting to see git
> workflows discussed in detail, and yours is more interesting than most.

Now I've written this down, I can sleep well at night, knowing that I can safely be hit by a bus any day ;-)

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> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:32:55PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>    - Obviously correct fixes that pertain to the tip of 'master'
>>      are directly applied to 'master'.
>> 
>>    This step is done with "git am".
>> 
>>      $ git checkout maint    ;# or "git checkout maint"
>
> One of those "maints" should probably be "master".

Heh, thanks. I am hoping somebody do grammartical copyediting and throw back a patch to add it in Documentation/howto.

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Message 7 of 10 in “What is the whole process of cooking git as a maintainer?”
  1. Ping YinNov 21, 2007
  2. Ping YinNov 21, 2007
  3. Theodore TsoNov 21, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2007
  5. Addendum to "MaintNotes"Junio C Hamano, Nov 22, 2007
  6. Jeff KingNov 22, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 22, 2007
  8. David KastrupNov 22, 2007
  9. Jeff KingNov 22, 2007
  10. Jeff KingNov 22, 2007

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