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diff --git a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt index a67130d..013014b 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ by doing the following: files in mbox format). - Write his own patches to address issues raised on the list but - nobody has stepped up solving. Send it out just like other + nobody has stepped up to solve. Send it out just like other contributors do, and pick them up just like patches from other contributors (see above). @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ by doing the following: - Prepare 'jch' branch, which is used to represent somewhere between 'master' and 'seen' and often is slightly ahead of 'next'. - $ Meta/Reintegrate master..seen >Meta/redo-jch.sh + $ Meta/Reintegrate master..jch >Meta/redo-jch.sh The result is a script that lists topics to be merged in order to rebuild 'seen' as the input to Meta/Reintegrate script. Remove @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ by doing the following: merged to 'next', add it at the end of the list. Then: $ git checkout -B jch master - $ Meta/redo-jch.sh -c1 + $ sh Meta/redo-jch.sh -c1 to rebuild the 'jch' branch from scratch. "-c1" tells the script to stop merging at the first line that begins with '###' @@ -283,6 +283,11 @@ by doing the following: $ git diff jch next + Then build the rest of 'jch': + + $ git checkout jch + $ sh Meta/redo-jch.sh + When all is well, clean up the redo-jch.sh script with $ sh Meta/redo-jch.sh -u @@ -293,7 +298,7 @@ by doing the following: - Rebuild 'seen'. - $ Meta/Reintegrate master..seen >Meta/redo-seen.sh + $ Meta/Reintegrate jch..seen >Meta/redo-seen.sh Edit the result by adding new topics that are not still in 'seen' in the script. Then @@ -406,13 +411,13 @@ Preparing a "merge-fix" A merge of two topics may not textually conflict but still have conflict at the semantic level. A classic example is for one topic -to rename an variable and all its uses, while another topic adds a +to rename a variable and all its uses, while another topic adds a new use of the variable under its old name. When these two topics are merged together, the reference to the variable newly added by the latter topic will still use the old name in the result. The Meta/Reintegrate script that is used by redo-jch and redo-seen -scripts implements a crude but usable way to work this issue around. +scripts implements a crude but usable way to work around this issue. When the script merges branch $X, it checks if "refs/merge-fix/$X" exists, and if so, the effect of it is squashed into the result of the mechanical merge. In other words, |