[hibernate-dev] Back-porting to 3.6

Hi, Until yesterday I was wondering what the current talk about back-porting issues was all about. Thanks to HHH-5729 I got my own share of problems ;-) I know Steve is preparing some guidelines regarding this, but there are my thoughts as a result from yesterdays experience. My workflow was: $ git checkout -b HHH-5729 $ (work) $ git commit $ (work) $ git commit ... $ git format-patch -M master Now I had a patch file for each commit. These patch files I copied to my second checkout of core where I am working on the branch 3.6. I know, I know, changing branches in git is fast, but I prefer (and recommend) everyone to have a separate checkout for the 3.6 branch. The main reason is the switch in build tools (maven -> gradle) and additional directory renames which make IDE setup refreshes a nightmare. Anyways, back to back-porting. Once I had the patch files in the right place, I tried: $ git am *.patch Here of course the trouble started. The patches could not be applied due to the renaming and in some cases merging of directories. Here are the problems I had to deal with in my case * core was renamed to hibernate-core * testing was moved into hibernate core (and sources moved from src/main/java -> src/test/java) * testsuite was moved into hibernate-core Nothing a little bit of sed work couldn't fix. In fact after fixing the paths names in the patch files, the patches applied just fine. This got me thinking whether we should write a little shell script taking care of these things and checking it into the 3.6 branch. The workflow would be something like this then: $ git format-patch -M master $ (copy patches to 3.6 branch) $ adjustPatches.sh *.patch $ git am *.patch Thoughts? Am I till missing part of the problem? --Hardy