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From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
	Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
	       gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Experimental branches
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B95B3B.6010901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHACq4rwn5Qxxoc2Bp-H+tSST=bMFZmt8Z-yhGiw9+DqYxdFOA@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/15/2015 03:04 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:
> But I've already pushed several commits onto the upstream branch.
> Everything I've read about git says don't rebase if you've already
> pushed your branch upstream.

That's if you've actually got multiple developers coordinating.

For solo development on branches, rebasing minimizes the state
difference between trunk and the branch, and so is quite handy
(essential?) for preparing to submit a patch set for review.


r~

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-16 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAHACq4rzgyE-2cM=UV30-1MWKHsWqwF1QdtuAujgYzFJ=8Y08A@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-23 13:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-12-23 17:38   ` Cary Coutant
2014-12-23 17:42     ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-23 18:08       ` Joel Brobecker
2014-12-23 18:21         ` Cary Coutant
2014-12-23 18:26           ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-24  0:20             ` Joel Brobecker
2015-01-15 21:56               ` Cary Coutant
2015-01-15 22:48                 ` H.J. Lu
2015-01-15 23:04                   ` Cary Coutant
2015-01-15 23:20                     ` H.J. Lu
2015-01-16 18:41                     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2015-01-16 19:07                       ` Cary Coutant
2015-01-16 19:26                         ` Doug Evans
2015-01-16  3:14                   ` Joel Brobecker
2015-01-15 23:57                 ` Alan Modra
2015-01-16  3:19                   ` Joel Brobecker
2015-01-16 18:42                     ` Richard Henderson
2015-01-17  4:17                       ` Joel Brobecker
2015-01-17  3:24                     ` Alan Modra

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