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authorLuck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>2006-01-20 11:00:18 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-01-20 13:34:12 -0800
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update using-topic-branches
Update documentation to warn users not to create noise in then Linux history by creating pointless "Auto-update from upstream" merge commits. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ GIT as a Linux subsystem maintainer.
-Tony
-Last updated w.r.t. GIT 0.99.9f
+Last updated w.r.t. GIT 1.1
Linux subsystem maintenance using GIT
-------------------------------------
@@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ These can be easily kept up to date by merging from the "linus" branch:
$ git checkout test && git merge "Auto-update from upstream" test linus
$ git checkout release && git merge "Auto-update from upstream" release linus
+Important note! If you have any local changes in these branches, then
+this merge will create a commit object in the history (with no local
+changes git will simply do a "Fast forward" merge). Many people dislike
+the "noise" that this creates in the Linux history, so you should avoid
+doing this capriciously in the "release" branch, as these noisy commits
+will become part of the permanent history when you ask Linus to pull
+from the release branch.
+
Set up so that you can push upstream to your public tree (you need to
log-in to the remote system and create an empty tree there before the
first push).