Re: [PATCH] update how-to-maintain-git
On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 12:24 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> + Whether it is the initial round or a subsequent round, the topic
> + may not build even in isolation, or may break the build when
> + merged to integration branches due to bugs. There may already be
> + an obvious and trivial improvements suggested on the list. The
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> + maintainer often adds an extra commit, with "SQUASH???" in its
> + title, to fix things up, before publishing the integration
> + branches to make it usable by other developers for testing.
> + These changes are what the maintainer is not 100% committed to
> + (trivial typofixes etc. are often squashed directly into the
> + patches that needs fixing, without being applied as a separate
> + "SQUASH???" commit), so that they can be removed easily as needed.
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>