linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/5] e2fsprogs: some small cleanups and fixes for journal code

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Message-ID: <20140728135305.GD6041@azat>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:53:05 +0400
From:	Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@...il.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
	"open list:EXT4 FILE SYSTEM" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] e2fsprogs: some small cleanups and fixes for journal
 code

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 09:00:22AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:06:19PM +0400, Azat Khuzhin wrote:
> > 
> > AFAIR it was against master.
> > Yeah massive rename will do a lot of conflicts, I've just rebased them
> > against maint without first patch and sent new patchset (v3).
> 
> Great, thanks!
> 
> For future information, if you are doing development, it's better to
> use either the maint branch (for bug fixes) or the next branch.  The
> next branch is non-rewinding, so it's safe to do development against
> it, and it's generally a few days ahead of the master branch,
> especially after I've added a large number of patches.
> 
> he basic idea is that if there are some end users which are using
> e2fsprogs' master branch, while any patches that get merged into
> "next" should be clean and safe and Bug Free(tm), that we give those
> patches a few days for people to find bugs and really obvious/stupid
> flaws that either (a) I made or that (b) I missed in my review before
> those new commits "graduate" to master.

Yeah, thanks for explanation Ted, I read about this, but I forgot to
change branch before writing patches.

Thanks,
Azat.

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