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Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 13:53:01 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
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Subject: Re: RFC: Run a dedicated hmm.git for 5.3
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On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 06:27:09PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Sure topic branch sounds fine, we do that all the time with various
> subsystems all over. We have ready made scripts for topic branches and
> applying pulls from all over, so we can even soak test everything in our
> integration tree. In case there's conflicts or just to make sure
> everything works, before we bake the topic branch into permanent history
> (the main drm.git repo just can't be rebased, too much going on and too
> many people involvd).

We don't rebase rdma.git either for the same reasons and nor does
netdev

So the usual flow for a shared topic branch is also no-rebase -
testing/etc needs to be done before things get applied to it.

Cheers,
Jason