On Wednesday, 2019-01-23 10:36:15 +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > Sending MRs from the main Mesa repository increase clutter in the > repository, and decrease visibility of project-wide branches. So it's > better if MRs are sent from forks instead. > > Let's add a note about this, in case its not obvious to everyone.
Yes please, we already have way too many dead branches in the main repo without adding that kind of things to it. One other thing is that (last time I checked) the scripts propagating the repo to github et al. don't propagate branch deletions, which means the clutter never gets cleaned there. > > Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <[email protected]> > --- > docs/submittingpatches.html | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/docs/submittingpatches.html b/docs/submittingpatches.html > index 736cbd64de8..b5a70523acd 100644 > --- a/docs/submittingpatches.html > +++ b/docs/submittingpatches.html > @@ -258,6 +258,8 @@ your email administrator for this.) > rebased > <li>Make sure your MR is closed if your patches get pushed outside > of GitLab > + <li>Please send MRs from a personal fork rather than from the main > + Mesa repository I would add "as it clutters it unnecessarily" as you mentioned in the commit message. Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <[email protected]> > </ul> > </p> > > -- > 2.20.1 > _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
