<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Satish Balay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:balay@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">balay@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Satish Balay wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> If so - how will the patch get into master? Previously all 33 stuf<br>
> landed in dev with direct pull. Same workflow or different here?<br>
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> with new workflow all 'master' gets merged periodically to 'next' - so<br>
> same periodic merge from 'maint' to 'master'?<br>
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</div>This part is unanswerd.</blockquote></div><br>Yes, we periodically merge from 'maint' to 'master'.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>One reason, besides testing, to put patches in topic branches is that they can be individually merged to 'master' instead of possibly building up several of them in 'maint'.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>This makes the merges of 'maint' into 'master' always trivial, rather than an opportunity for merge conflicts.</div></div>