Re: wireless: the contenders

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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:48:49PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:36:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> > >The "master" branch of that tree is (mostly) up-to-date w/ Linus, plus
> > >changes I recently sent to Jeff.  Those changes are also available on
> > >the "upstream-jgarzik" branch, but it is frozen to when I requested
> > >Jeff's pull.
> 
> > Typically I do not update 'master' unless I am also updating 'upstream' 
> > with vanilla Linus changes, in order to avoid screwing up the tree heads 
> > and the diff.  When I do update 'master' from 'upstream', it is a 
> > trivial matter to then pull those changes into 'upstream':
> 
> Good info...thanks!
> 
> FWIW, I have an "origin" branch that corresponds to Linus' tree.
> I think that probably enables the same kind of usage as you noted...?

Yep, it doesn't matter what you call it.

I avoid 'origin' since a 'git pull' without arguments will automatically
update that (and possibly master too).

But it's just a name.  Any branch with vanilla Linus tree in it will
achieve the behavior I described.

	Jeff



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