From kde-core-devel  Mon Oct 19 07:07:27 2009
From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt () viscovery ! net>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:07:27 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Version mismatch when building trunk
Message-Id: <4ADC102F.5050108 () viscovery ! net>
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Thiago Macieira schrieb:
> The branch switching is necessary in the workflow I created because I'm 
> treating kde-qt branches as patch queues. Each time I create a new branch, I 
> reapply all the previous patches from KDE, while local changes, like backports 
> from Qt itself, are lost. We start anew.

You could create a branch latest-stable that merges 4.6-stable etc. such
that the merge always takes the content of the merged-in branch. Then
people need just track lastest-stable, and they will be fast-forwarded by
the next git pull.

-- Hannes