From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B151F5AE for ; Thu, 13 May 2021 13:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233773AbhEMNHE (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2021 09:07:04 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:52878 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233795AbhEMNG5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2021 09:06:57 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-x634.google.com (mail-pl1-x634.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::634]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D37CC061760 for ; Thu, 13 May 2021 06:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pl1-x634.google.com with SMTP id h7so14353392plt.1 for ; Thu, 13 May 2021 06:05:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eUP5IMDSDG49LsfaudWbgg96hsCCAds0xSymJeiQF1s=; b=OThtPikSyWa3ojed6EtIg+k5YokOpmxifB3TAME2MFKMqbXGFgXhwUNrkhaTzUYB+7 REO6SCZi3cisuh+n9tdysaXvwdBZJrdctWZR2MRUXVDywnrOu/64axplmJrzazBxLtue McLkz1cWIZ8XkZzYG3XgvzhYN/m3EwyebdKiv2BQ8fFGWkviqJDiUrMKP7XKzfe3j+oR UuYVH9g12E85HlrXytveix5kSjJlCBqlaRAu7389MWF7VZ5wlzjDND6sNSDsTJ/GGONY j5QiBzo6qRTDsQ9cyQOasREONdXgdGgG/Gghvcej51sb66RiV08wCmdxy4LTzZn0LhYa gpyw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eUP5IMDSDG49LsfaudWbgg96hsCCAds0xSymJeiQF1s=; b=l47xXy7uqV4GR9UeM81ypbDCqieGmuAUZbdl5uoXaLeiFXPN1exs1Fgw3b2Z3LHGVP aLHHuhKmpIJRnt5Eicpd+YGNeQjptuTwLq9OJZRXeo76Z6Em6Ek3kd21ybZkIpnIe6Dd KyTk0ULJF+o/1lpB2e7pTr8VJJ7x61AvA4lFHt9gp+MDr3JV25fH375L+ivdfmm4Vo6R ZmfSrJwYJHnjJB9SwCXxvUJGSScVi/BbrXlPeH9qFoUFdWTRHdXtkqcHD/QfZI4D7swU cbwAoL7G0HJxKSLWUheymI0AoKz8tKj0qcS2Qqz186ewD1ZF5qnh8azYFcpDJBaXY0Iq EQkw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5321F8FLGzc54S0SRjhHjZFXlyajhRSBLjiWQ6foKbKRItWMvfze YY1ml5cU0w5xx4DLy9QzAj30w1+3zq8Zzg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzb9Y3LPeL24fFc5eR9sUK7nnnxOkUo2KOc4+q3kLBiedkM+1CBALSXwNW+vKXRwe2bBTjBdA== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:ec83:b029:ef:919c:39f5 with SMTP id x3-20020a170902ec83b02900ef919c39f5mr5669517plg.83.1620911146361; Thu, 13 May 2021 06:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.43.80] (subs03-180-214-233-89.three.co.id. [180.214.233.89]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p36sm2237444pgm.74.2021.05.13.06.05.45 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 13 May 2021 06:05:46 -0700 (PDT) To: Git Users From: Bagas Sanjaya Subject: [RFC doc] Tracking git.git Message-ID: <4591b3bd-1f35-55cb-6eb0-be97810d6e68@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 20:05:43 +0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi, Some people (most notably Git developers here and me) like to run Git compiled from git.git repository, as opposed to normal users that run either Git from distribution or compiled from official source tarball. In git.git repo, besides master, there is also next, seen, and maint branches. The purposes of these branches are described on Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt. When we have git.git repo clone and track it, tracking master, next, and maint are easy peasy: git pull will do the job. But tracking seen is more like tracking linux-next. We do NOT use git pull because often doing so will try to merge origin (upstream) with our local version, which are divergent and most likely will end with conflict. Instead, we do git fetch first followed by resetting to upstream by git reset --hard origin/seen. Should the fact above be documented? And on what file the fact should be placed? In INSTALL? -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara