How should files be moved in the glibc repository

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Steve Ellcey wrote:

> email before I send it. Â 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'. Â 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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Joseph S. Myers
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