Git merge workflow: reverse it?

[Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io)]

On 2022-05-10 15:33, Nate Graham wrote:
> On 5/10/22 04:15, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
>>> https://manifesto.kde.org/commitments/
>> 
>> I don't see anything in there that would force the same merge workflow 
>> on all
>> KDE projects. In my view the merge workflow is comparable to the 
>> coding style.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Ingo
> 
> I don't think anyone is trying to force anything; rather, the proposal
> is to get voluntary consensus around standardizing on a single
> workflow (whatever it is) so that we all individually reap the
> benefits of consistency by not having to remember two workflows, look
> up which workflow a project uses, etc.
> 
> Personally I don't care which one we standardize on, but I am in favor
> of voluntarily and communally standardizing on one of them.

Yeah, I doubt we can or want to force people.

I personally prefer the cherry-pick approach from master
to the stable branch(es), given I only work on the master branch and
that is for me the best way to previously test the stuff properly.

Naturally for e.g. Kate we only backport trivial stuff that way.

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Nate

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