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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
June 25, 2008 03:27
Subject:
Re: [PATCH 04/10] Ignore DynaLoader.xs in .gitignore for DynaLoader.
Message ID:
b77c1dce0806250327y6f85998if04434d05dbfd965@mail.gmail.com
2008/6/25 Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>:
>  'p4/perl' will have the inadvertant commit removed from it and track
>   perforce verbatim.
>
>  'blead' will get merged from blead every time I update it, and I'll
>   review and accept changes to files under Porting/ and any git
>   interoperability-related patches I receive and can be convinced are
>   safe.
>
> My intention with accepting these changes is that patches to Porting/
> would give instructions about how all of the maintenance operations that
> worked under Perforce will work under git.  In particular, there should
> be a script which will use the output of 'git rev-list --cherry-pick',
> as well as correlate information from the log messages, to say what
> patches still need to be considered for application to the maintenance
> branches.
>
> I'm hoping that this will stop there every being a fork while not
> discouraging people who are willing to help the transition help out.
>
> If anyone has any objections, please raise them - I can of course just
> put these under a different branch or something like that.
> Thoughts/comments/flames?

That sounds very sane to me.

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