Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:17:43 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Proposed stable release changes |
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:11:17PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > It would be even better if you could find the time to push -rc releases > into the stable repository before you accept patches into a stable branch.
What do you mean by this?
The git tree? I could do that, but when I have to drop a patch, it would cause a mess if I had to always go forwards.
I could do branches for -rc releases, that end up as the "end-of-the-line", and I create the next .y release on top of the previous one, not the -rc release.
That's kind of what I do "internally" when I create the -rc releases in the first place, but I just delete those throw-away trees, and never push them publicly anywhere.
Does it really help anyone to do this, except for some automated testing? Doesn't the -rc patch work good enough for that?
> I am now running my test suite on stable/master, so that would give it > some time to catch new problems before they make their way into a stable > branch.
I don't understand what you mean here.
thanks,
greg k-h
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