On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 09:39:58AM -0600, Ken Dreyer wrote:
In Ceph we do this at a slightly different point of time. We use "rdopkg tag-patches" to save each of the "patches" refs that we've translated into patch series in dist-git. Each Git tag is the NVR of the package.
We rebase and force-push our "patches" branches frequently, so a patches branch is one "history", and dist-git becomes a "history of histories".
It's critical to have this flexibility + auditability so we can move fast and still go back and reproduce everything.
How do you backport fixes? Do apply the fixes directly to dist-git? Or do you apply the fixes to a corresponding patches branch that you occur to have around till needed (e.g. till the hitorical code is supported) for the purpose of backporting?
-- Petr