[bitbake-devel] [PATCH v5] fetch/gitsm: avoid live submodule fetching during unpack()

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 08:47 -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote:
> Thanks for the help getting this landed. With this change being part
> of Bitbake, what's the procedure for attempting to get it backported
> to the final MR of Yocto 2.2? Do I just backport it to a certain
> maintenance branch of Bitbake (announced somehow with a prefix on the
> git-send-email subject) and it would magically pop up out the
> corresponding branch of poky if accepted to Bitbake?

With bitbake its a case of requesting backports to the appropriate
stable release branches, either in the form of a patch with [1.3X] in
the subject, or just mention which revision to cherry-pick to which
branch if it cherry-picks cleanly.

I think to get back to 2.2, we'd have to backport to 1.38, 1.36, 1.34
and 1.32. I do get nervous about patches which land in master and then 
immediately get backported across so many releases. I'm less nervous if
the patches cleanly cherry-pick as at least the code is the same. How
cleanly does it backport?

Cheers,

Richard