[Development] requesting an own 4.8-blackberry10 branch on gitorious

[Peter Hartmann]

On 12/18/2012 07:13 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 03:54:20PM +0100, Peter Hartmann wrote:
>> Thanks for setting up the branch; however, would it be possible to get a
>> 4.8-blackberry10 branch (without reference to the patch release number)?
>
>> We are not really releasing our own versions of 4.8.4, 4.8.5 etc., but
>> have our own release cycle for NDK and device images, which is not
>> related to the Qt 4 release cycle in any way.
>>
> this is immaterial. you are at some point merging from upstream, which is
> also when you should "rebase" your version number. this thinking is also
> reflected in vladimir's questions about the versioning.
> also, consider that users want to think in terms of "upstream release +
> minimal delta", not "rolling release based on older upstream". this is
> predestined for a rebase workflow. also, for actually upstreaming your
> patches, you need to rebase them anyway. latest when you have conflicts,
> you'll really "enjoy" using a non-rebased branch (because you can
> resolve twice or thrice - once to merge upstream, once to submit
> upstream, and in the worst case once more to merge back the upstreamed
> version) - and after some time you'll have a history with conflicted
> merges and duplicated commits all over the place, where it's really hard
> to find out where something comes from and what was already upstreamed.
> given the low number of unmergable vendor patches you are aiming at,
> you'd really do yourself and everyone else a favor by rebasing.
>
> but if you are the s/m type, you can have your long-living vendor
> branch. ;)

You are completely right about rebasing - that is exactly what we do 
currently: We rebase our internal branch on top of the upstream 4.8 
branch regularly (at least once a week). Where I don't follow you is why 
we would need several branches, each one based on a patch release, for 
that; IMO we just need one branch (4.8-blackberry10) that we can rebase 
periodically on top of the upstream 4.8 branch.

So yes, long-living vendor branch please :)

Peter

>
>> Also (nitpicking), maybe the suffix should be "-blackberry10" instead of
>> "-bb10", because I guess not everybody knows what "bb10" stands for.
>>
> somebody who doesn't know it wouldn't care about that branch to start
> with - and most our branch names are not exactly self-explanatory to the
> uninitiated.
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