Re: [FYI] {GSoC} Temporary branch made permanent

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Wednesday 03 August 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hello automakers.
> 
> I've pushed into the permanent, non-rewindable branch `test-protocols'
> branch all the changes that have been applied to the temporary branch
> `origin/GSoC/experimental/test-results-work' in the last weeks.  This
> means that improvements and fixes for (or reversions of) those patches
> cannot be done anymore as amendments (with e.g., "git rebase -i" and
> "git commit --amend"), but will have to be done as follow-up changes.
> 
> The reason behind this move is that, in the work devoted to extending
> and improving the Automake's own testsuite, I want to take advantage
> of the recent TAP support in Automake; the better way to do so is to
> create a new branch 'tap-testsuite-work' out of 'testsuite-work',
> merge the TAP-related commits in this new branch, and proceed from
> there.  But once those commits are merged, they cannot be amended
> anymore without duplicating and/or distrupting the history (as I
> learned the hard way some time ago).  So the best route to go it
> to "finalize" those commits in a permanent branch, which can then
> be merged safely and freely.
> 
> Regards,
>   Stefano
> 
I've created such a 'tap-testsuite-work' branch.  The 'testsuite-work'
and 'test-protocols' branches will be regularly merged into it.

Regards,
  Stefano