[Development] [cmake-developers] workflow

[Peter Kümmel]

On 19.06.2012 22:50, Brad King wrote:
> On 06/19/2012 04:09 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote:
>> Some small questions to the workflow:
>>
>> - I read on the workflow description site
>>
>> Topic Branch
>>       ...
>>       Heads not published (no named branch on server)
>>
>> What does this mean? I see all the named branches.
>
> I don't know to what text you refer.  Where did you read this?
>

Here: http://public.kitware.com/Wiki/Git/Workflow/Topic#Design

Thanks for the explanations!

Peter


>> - And when I start browsing at
>>       http://cmake.org/gitweb
>> the stage repository is not listed, is this by accident?
>
> We intentionally left it out to avoid confusing people looking
> for the CMake repo.  Developers get the link to the stage from
> the Wiki:
>
>   http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Git#Repositories
>
>> - Is cmake.git automatically synchronized with stage/master
>>     and stage/next?
>
> Yes.  Actually it is the other way: stage/(master|next) are
> fetched from origin/(master|next).  Scripts running in the
> stage repo construct the merges but do not update the branches
> locally.  Instead the merges must be pushed to origin and
> then fetched back from there.  That avoids races between
> pushes to the two repos.
>
> The general topic stage workflow is documented here:
>
>   http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/Git/Workflow/Stage
>
> with ascii-art history diagrams at each step.
>
> -Brad
>