[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Core is now using Git

[Steve Ebersole]

On Thursday, October 07, 2010 04:30:11 am Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
> If you want to contribute a fix or new feature, either use the pure Git
> approach, or use the GitHub fork capability (see
> http://help.github.com/forking/ and http://help.github.com/pull-requests/
> ) The benefit of the GitHub approach is that we can comment on the pull
> request and code though I am far from an expert so far and their flow
> could easily be improved (slightly confusing).
> 
> #for people with read/write access
> git clone git at github.com:hibernate/hibernate-core.git

The "GitHub" way though is to fork the org repo and clone that.  I thought 
that's the workflow we agreed to follow?


> o prefer rebase over merge
> Rebase put changes from the branch you forked below the new commits you
> have done and thus keep the history linear.
> 
> got checkout HHH-XXX
> git rebase master
> 
> DO NOT rebase a branch that you have shared publicly (unless you know
> people won't use it or you wish them harm).

These 2 comments seem at odds in regards to bugfix branches (aka '3.2', '3.3' 
and '3.5' currently).

-- 
Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>
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