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Re: [PATCH] update how-to-maintain-git

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 6, 2020, 21:28 UTC
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
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> 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
>
> s/an//
>
>> +   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
>
> s/needs/need/
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>> +   "SQUASH???" commit), so that they can be removed easily as needed.
Thanks.
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  1. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2020
  2. Taylor BlauMar 3, 2020
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2020
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2020
  5. Taylor BlauMar 3, 2020
  6. Heba WalyMar 4, 2020
  7. Jonathan TanMar 4, 2020
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2020
  9. Heba WalyMar 5, 2020
  10. update how-to-maintain-gitJunio C Hamano, Mar 6, 2020
  11. Eric SunshineMar 6, 2020
  12. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2020
  13. Martin ÅgrenMar 7, 2020
  14. hv/receive-denycurrent-everywhere, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2020, #01; Tue, 3)Johannes Schindelin, Mar 4, 2020
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2020

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