On 24/06/2014 14:39, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've set up a Nixpkgs/NixOS branch named "staging", intended to bunch changes
> that cause rebuilds/redownloads of many packages (such as stdenv changes). The
> idea is that this branch can be merged into master periodically (e.g. every 
> few
> weeks).
>
> The main rule for staging is that it should always be mergeable into master. 
> So
> it should not be used for testing/developing potentially destabilising 
> features
> (e.g. updating GCC to 4.9, or a new X.org release). These should instead go 
> into
> their own feature branches, which can be merged into staging when they are
> deemed sufficiently stable.
>
> The Hydra jobset is here:
>
>   http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/staging
>
For example, something like this should go in staging?
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/3053
That you know, is it possible to choose the branch when merging from github?

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