Ben Reser wrote:
> Whenever we do a backport we nominate a set of revisions on trunk to be
> applied to the branch. When there are no conflicts this works great.
> Everyone can read the diff from trunk, vote on it knowing that those are
> the exact changes that will be applied to the branch.
>
> Problem is when we run into conflicts. This is happening more and more.
> So here's my solution:
>
> a) When nominating a change to be backported the nominator *MUST*
> attempt a merge.
>
> b) If the merge creates conflicts the nominator must resolve the
> conflicts and place a patch, say in a directory called STATUS_PATCHES.
> The patch will be named after the revisions it is merging. A note will
> be included in the STATUS file mentioning that there is a conflict and
> a resolved patch exists in the STATUS_PATCHES dir.
>
> This will save whoever does the merging from feeling like they're
> guessing at the right thing to do. It will ensure that we don't end up
> with merges that are just wrong...
>
> If nobody disagrees with this I'll change HACKING to reference this.
+1.
Max.
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Received on Tue Aug 10 03:28:59 2004