[arch-haskell] Building the Haskell ABS tree

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:29:26PM -0400, gdweber at iue.edu wrote:
> Thanks for this advice and also Magnus's.
> 
> I've made some progress, and have made a pull request to
> archhaskell/habs -- my first contribution to the project!
> 
> But since then I've pulled from archhaskell/habs and have conflicts
> in cblrepo.db.  What is the best thing to do here -- should I try to
> resolve the conflicts on my end (and make another pull request?) or
> will Magnus resolve the conflicts (assuming he accepts my pull
> request) and I fetch them later?

It's always best to make sure your changes are rebased onto
habs/master, that makes it trivial to pull them.

> Also, I've noticed that most pull requests are from master to
> master.  Is this the best way, or is it preferred to make a branch
> for any set of packages that we want to contribute?

Personally I think this stems from peoples' inexperience with git.
It's definitely preferred to make a separate branch for your changes
and create a pull request from it.  Then use the master branch only to
track habs/master.

/M

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