[OE-core] Pull request with misc changes

[Chris Larson]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 16:03, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> Hmmm.  I'm going to take a stab at making this a create-pull-request
>>> option...
>>
>> Martin/Tom: Serious question - why not use the contrib repo for this?
>>
>> I have nightmares about all the development being spread to all the
>> corners of the globe and people not being able to see what is being
>> worked on. For short lived branches its not so much of a problem but as
>> we take on longer lived feature development it will be a problem. I'd
>> therefore like to understand why the dislike of it...
>
> Welcome to Distribute Source Control Management World; this is the
> beauty of it and I see no reason to restrict or enforce people to use
> a repository.
>
> In my personal case we have been using GitHub as a central place to
> put projects that O.S. Systems is contributing and this is good to
> gather us some visibility so OE will be there too.
>
> So I won't use contrib to share patches. I can send them to mailing
> list (as I have been doing). A merge on a topic branch is a git pull
> command from you so I see not much problem for you or whom is doing
> the pull job.
>
> As an example:
>
>  git checkout -b otavio-20110510-review
>  git pull git://github.com/OSSystems/oe-core.git master
>  git shortlog origin/master..
>

Even easier, one command to get it into a local branch:

git fetch git://github.com/OSSystems/oe-core.git master:otavio-20110510-review
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Christopher Larson
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