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Re: How should files be moved in the glibc repository
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> email before I send it. I didn't send my patch this way ultimitely
> because I had committed my changes on the master branch (locally), then
> before sending anything I wanted to update it with any changes from the
> FSF tree so I did a 'git pull'. That worked and it seemed to merge my
If you commit to local master, you should also use "git pull --rebase"
rather than plain pull. (We generally avoid merge commits on glibc
master, keeping the history linear.)
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