On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 06:47:06PM -0500, Clebert Suconic wrote:
> We do a slightly different approach. If you guys are doing git I really think 
> you guys should consider it.
> > 1. create a task branch : git checkout -b my-working-branch
> > 2. create that voodoo that you do
> > 3. when done, rebase your task branch on master : git rebase -i master
> 
> 4. push to your github fork
> 5. send a github Pull Request towards the github fork of the apache project
> 
> 6. Someone else (yeah… someone who was not the original committer) should 
> merge it after review
> 
> 7 That someone else will do: git merge --no-ff github/pr/PRNumber
> ( We ellected to have merge committs with our committs, so we always have two 
> people to blame in case things go wrong)
> 
> If you elect to not have the merge commit like we have, you can simply use 
> git pull.. and that should presever the Hashes from the original commit.
> 
> 8. The apache bot will close the PR unless you rebased the commit (which you 
> are not supposed to)
> 
> 
> 
> Why we do that?
> 
> 
> I - to avoid merge errors like it just happened
> II - it increases community
> iii - we have a theory that everyone will do stupid things eventually... this 
> is an extra layer of protection :)
> 
> 
> You could look at our README for more information: We are still getting 
> started with it and we have based this on how other apache projects are using 
> git and github:
> 
> 
> https://github.com/apache/activemq-6/blob/master/README.md

I like the idea of pull requests and explicit peer reviews for changes.
But it's above my pay grade to do anything more than envy such a work
flow. :D

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