Re: Branch management, wip-ppc64le, and POWER9

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 09:38:43AM +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
> > Specifically, I'm curious to know:
> >
> > - Is it usually expected that wip branches can be rebased?  I don't plan
> >   to rebase wip-ppc64le, since I'd like to be able to coordinate with
> >   others using this branch, but I'm not sure what others expect.
> 
> I think rebasing introduces issues with commit signatures, since you'd
> then be signing others commits. If multiple people are committing to the
> branch, I'd treat it like staging/core-updates, and merge rather than
> rebasing.

The signatures will be lost, but for "wip-" branches the expectation has
always been that history may be rewritten. For me, rebasing is a more
comfortable workflow for this kind of exploratory branch. I recommend
against using merges here.

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