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Commit 74c11c32 authored by Simona Vetter's avatar Simona Vetter
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dim: Caution more against topic branches


They're very often just beaurocratic paperwork pushing because
maintainers refuse to give acks for merging patches through a single
tree. I guess the snarky intro wasn't clear enough, so elaborate.

Given that we don't even talk about topic branches anywhere else in
the docs hopefully this makes things a bit clearer.

v2: Fix typo (Maarten)

Reviewed-by: default avatarMaarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
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......@@ -475,9 +475,13 @@ EXAMPLES
Cross-subsystem topic branches
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So you want to send a pull request to another subsystem? Maintainers will likely
get cranky if you ask them to pull a swath of unrelated drm patches, so we'll
use a topic branch based upon Linus' tree with only the relevant patches.
So you want to send a pull request to another subsystem? First, you don't want,
it's much simpler to get Acks for merging through a single tree and then maybe
later on backmerge. But if it cannot be avoided, read on.
Maintainers will likely get cranky if you ask them to pull a swath of unrelated
drm patches, so we'll use a topic branch based upon Linus' tree with only the
relevant patches.
First select a suitable *baseline* for your topic branch. For topic
branches shared within the gpu/drm subsystem, base it on the latest
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