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diff --git a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt index d527b30770..ea6e4a52c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Abstract: Imagine that git development is racing along as usual, when our friend neighborhood maintainer is struck down by a wayward bus. Out of the hordes of suckers (loyal developers), you have been tricked (chosen) to step up as the new maintainer. This howto will show you "how to" do it. +Content-type: text/asciidoc + +How to maintain Git +=================== The maintainer's git time is spent on three activities. @@ -176,7 +180,7 @@ by doing the following: - Update "What's cooking" message to review the updates to existing topics, newly added topics and graduated topics. - This step is helped with Meta/UWC script (where Meta/ contains + This step is helped with Meta/cook script (where Meta/ contains a checkout of the 'todo' branch). - Merge topics to 'next'. For each branch whose tip is not @@ -197,10 +201,9 @@ by doing the following: - Nothing is next-worthy; do not do anything. - - Rebase topics that do not have any commit in next yet. This - step is optional but sometimes is worth doing when an old - series that is not in next can take advantage of low-level - framework change that is merged to 'master' already. + - [** OBSOLETE **] Optionally rebase topics that do not have any commit + in next yet, when they can take advantage of low-level framework + change that is merged to 'master' already. $ git rebase master ai/topic @@ -209,7 +212,7 @@ by doing the following: pre-rebase hook to make sure that topics that are already in 'next' are not rebased beyond the merged commit. - - Rebuild "pu" to merge the tips of topics not in 'next'. + - [** OBSOLETE **] Rebuild "pu" to merge the tips of topics not in 'next'. $ git checkout pu $ git reset --hard next @@ -241,7 +244,7 @@ by doing the following: - Fetch html and man branches back from k.org, and push four integration branches and the two documentation branches to - repo.or.cz + repo.or.cz and other mirrors. Some observations to be made. |