Re: [orca-list] Patch that needs testing

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

I still find myself to be something begween a biggenner and an
intermediate user of git.  What exactly is BGO? When I take down these
patches, I merely do a 'git am' to apply it to a separate branch and
as long as I keep rebasing, it seems to work for me.  It sounds like
this other approach would be more seemless.

> From what you described below, Jaycen, I would be concerned that there
would be no opportunity for review or testing by others before it is
firmly committed to master.

I think I would like to find some documentation about git and related
processes that would be more informative than thypical man pages.
Those man pages are fine for reference but I don't think they
typically make good introductry documentation.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 04:29:15PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info> wrote:
> > Which is something I've wondered about. Since branches are so cheap in
> > Git, instead of storing these patches as b.g.o attachments, why not make
> > them topic branches? At that point, testing just becomes a "git pull",
> > then a "git checkout bgo-123456", build, test, iterate as needed... When
> > fixed, the topic branch can then be merged onto master and deleted.
>
> That's how some projects work, and I think it will become more common over
> time as people adjust to using Git (and similar systems) to track changes,
> rather than CVS or sVN.
>
> I have read that there are proposals for systems that would integrate Git with
> bug tracking, so that one could commit a change and close a bug at the same
> time, for example, and use Git to hold the bug database. I haven't been
> following developments, thus I don't know how much progress has been made in
> this direction.
>
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