[Grml-devel] Working with git and sending in patches

[Tong Sun]

Hi,

Just trying to put all jigsaw puzzle together here. Please correct me if I'm
wrong.

First of all, philosophy for version control with git:

. While developing, small/independent commits are good thing, so that it's
easy to decouple different changes.

. But when integrating something in a main branch, commits should contain
all
logical/related changes.

Steps (using grml-debootstrap as an example):

- do initial git pull into grml-debootstrap

  git pull git://git.grml.org/grml-debootstrap master

- Go into grml-debootstrap and start a new branch

  git checkout -b t/my-working-branch

- work on the code, commit, hack, commit, hack, commit -- commit often &
commit small

- when AOK and need to integrate patches into main branch, squash all
patches into one

  git rebase -i origin/master

- send in patches via email (to grml-devel at ml.grml.org)

  git format-patch origin
  git send-email --to grml-devel at ml.grml.org ...

Please correct me if anything above is wrong.

Now, question, having following the above, I am having problem pulling in
the latest master from head:

$ git pull
[ . . . ]
You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
want to merge with, and 'branch.t/apt_cache.merge' in
your configuration file does not tell me, either. Please
specify which branch you want to use on the command line and
try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>').
See git-pull(1) for details.

$ git pull git://git.grml.org/grml-debootstrap master