Johan, Johanes, Thanks! You made yourself prefectly clear. git is wonderfult :) ----- Original Message ---- > From: Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Gili Pearl wrote: > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > > > From: Johannes Sixt > > > Gili Pearl schrieb: > > > > Here is one problem I saw when trying to work in the three-level > > > > model. At some point, I had the following setup: > > > > > > > > top-level : A----B----C----D > > > > \ > > > > \ > > > > mid-level1: K----L----M > > > > \ > > > > \ > > > > low-level1: X----Y > > > > > > > > The maintainer of mid-level1 has decided that commits K L M are ready > > > > to be merged into the top-level repo. So he rebased on top-level > > > > before asking 'please pull', but after that the low-level was not > > > > able to rebase on the mid-level any more. > > > > > > In this model, the mid-level1 maintainer should *not* rebase against > > > top-level. Rather, he should ask the top-level maintainer to *merge* > > > K-L-M. > > > > But what if K-L-M conflict with C-D? The one who should take care about > > it is the mid-level1 maintainer (or possibly one of the low-level1 > > maintainers). > > If there is a merge conflict, mid-level1 maintainer will typically merge D > and M into a new merge commit N: > > top-level : A----B----C----D > \ \ > \ \ > mid-level1: K----L----M----N > > ...and then ask top-level maintainer to merge N (which should have no > conflicts by now). The merge can also be done by low-level1 developer. > > > > > So what is the right working flow for us? > > > > > > The only ones who should be allowed to rebase are developers at the > > > lowest level. Everyone else should only pull or merge. > > > > I still don't see clearly what happens next in the example above when the > > low level developr wants to push X-Y upstream? On which branch should he > > rebase? Need he rebase on mid-level (where K-L-M were already > > merged upstream), or maybe direclty on the top-level?? > > If you're a leaf developer (i.e. allowed to rebase), you should rebase > against your immediate upstream's branch. In this example, that is > mid-level1's branch. > > > Have fun! > > ...Johan > > -- > Johan Herland, > www.herland.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html