[Mesa-dev] so the development model is working?

[Ian Romanick]

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Bridgman, John wrote:

> Dave's comments implied that there is a policy against fixing bugs in
> master then cherry picking 'em to stable; your comments implied
> master-first plus cherry pick is OK but you feel that fixing in
> stable and merging back to master is a *better* way of working.
> 
> Is it fair to say that if a developer is working in master and
> notices a potential bug fix then it's OK to fix in master and
> cherry-pick that fix to one or more stable branches afterwards, but
> if the "primary task" is fixing a bug (particularly a big discovered
> in stable) then fixing first in the stable branch is preferred ?

Mixing cherry-picking and merging is bad because the same commit will
end up in the log multiple times.  If you commit to master, cherry-pick
to 7.8, and merge back to master, the commit will appear in the log of
master two or three times.  This is confusing at best.
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