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3.4.10 Pushing to staging

Do not push directly to the git master branch. Instead, push to staging.

You will not see your patch on origin/master until some automatic tests have been run. These tests are run every couple of hours; please wait at least 12 hours before wondering if your patch has been lost. Note that you can check the commits on origin/staging by looking at the git web interface on savannah.

It may happen occasionally that the staging branch breaks automated testing. In this case the automatic move of staging material to master gets halted in order to avoid broken material entering master. This is a safety net. Please do not try breaking out from it by adding fixes on top of staging: in that case the whole sequence will end up in master after all, defeating the purpose of the system. The proper fix usually involves rewriting the staging branch and is best left to core developers after discussion on the developer list.

Before pushing to staging it is a good practice to check whether staging is ahead of master, and if so, wait until master has caught up with staging before pushing. This simplifies things if changes to staging have to be backed out for some reason. To check whether master has caught up with staging you can look at the git web interface on savannah, or do:

git fetch
gitk

and check that origin/master is at the same commit as origin/staging. Another option is to see if any commits are listed when you do:

git fetch
git log origin/master..origin/staging

If your work is in a patch file

Assuming that your patch is in a file called ‘0001-my-patch.patch’ (see Patches), and you are currently on git master, do:

git checkout staging
git pull -r
git am 0001-my-patch.patch
gitk
git push origin staging
git checkout master

If your work is in a branch

If you are working on branches and your work is in my_branch_name, then do:

git checkout my_branch_name
git pull -r origin staging

This will rebase your branch on origin/staging. At this point git will let you know if there are any conflicts. If so, resolve them before continuing:

gitk
git push origin HEAD:staging

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