[aur-dev] Git workflow

[Dan McGee]

On Wednesday, June 23, 2010, Denis Kobozev <d.v.kobozev at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you're not in control of a branch, it is best not to work on that
>> branch. I generally keep all my work in a separate branch, so that
>> master can be clean and I can rebase as needed.
>
> It's somewhat surprising that the Git documentation and other online
> info I found rarely describes what happens after you do `git
> format-patch origin`. Perhaps I've been thinking about this for too
> long. Suppose I do this:
>
> $ git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git
> $ git checkout -b feature_a
> # code, test...
> $ git commit -a
>
> $ git checkout master
> $ git pull origin
> $ git checkout feature_a
> $ git rebase master
> $ git format-patch master
> $ git send-email --to "aur-dev at archlinux.org" *.patch
>
> Then after a while I'd like to see if feature A has been accepted. I do:
>
> $ git checkout master
> $ git pull
> $ git log
>
> It looks like it has been accepted. Can I be sure it has been accepted
> in its entirety and that I can delete my feature_a branch? I could've
> sent a series of patches and some of them have been rejected.

man git-cherry