On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:42:02 +0200, Christoph Höger
<choeger(a)cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> And the final question: When I got to the point of sending one single
> patch and upstream merges it, how can I resync with upstream without
> having to clone again?
Sure, I always do git pull. If a conflict occurs, I do this
- Edit conflicts so the code looks good (using git status to remind
what's left, and then vi, /, >>> Enter ).
- make check # just see how I'm doing
- git commit -a
This thing posts this scary message "oh you're committing a MERGE,
the sky is falling!" inside the commit template. Just do :wq
and let it commit
In my experience, git merges pretty well. However, I need to watch
out for an occasional double-patch when upstream rearranges chunks.
In C, all functions look the same with 3-line context.
FYI, newer git added a --rebase switch to pull. So, you can do "git
pull --rebase origin", and it will just rebase whatever local commits
you have on top. Of course, you may still have conflicts, and that's
not a good idea if your repo is public.
--
Dan