[petsc-dev] git workflow question

[Dominic Meiser]

On 07/18/2014 10:07 AM, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Dominic Meiser wrote:
>
>> On 07/18/2014 09:51 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Dominic Meiser <dmeiser at txcorp.com
>>> <mailto:dmeiser at txcorp.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      I'm starting development of a bug fix in a new feature branch. The
>>>      bug fix heavily relies on work in a different feature branch which
>>>      is still a long ways away from getting merged into next or master.
>>>      Which of the following approaches is the recommended practice:
>>>
>>>      1) Branch off of master and merge the other feature branch I need
>>>      into the newly create branch.
>>>      2) Branch off of the other feature branch.
>>>      3) Something else I'm not thinking of.
>>>
>>>
>>> I do not really understand why you just do not make the fix in the feature
>>> branch?
>> To make things more specific, the bug fix is for DMDA's with cusp vectors. I
>> think this will be a fair amount of work and it may take a while to complete.
>> It needs work I've done in the dmeiser/fix-cusp-bjacobi branch but is
>> otherwise unrelated. I thought it might be good to do it in a separate branch
>> because of that. I wouldn't want work on this bug fix to hold up things with
>> fix-cusp-bjacobi or to make that branch more difficult to review.
>
> I would create a new branch off 'dmeiser/fix-cusp-bjacobi' for this
> work. [assuming this new branch would be merged in next/master after
> dmeiser/fix-cusp-bjacobi is merged in]
>
> Satish
>
>
Thanks Matt and Satish, I'll branch off of fix-cusp-bjacobi.

Cheers,
Dominic

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