In message 4614E885.6090702@smiths-aerospace.com you wrote:
I would like to give branches a chance. They have been supported since RCS (or before) so most people are familiar with the concept, if perhaps not the actual use. I find branches in git are very usable and extremely useful.
Please don't hesitate to go on. You are right, no other SCM system I know makes branch handling so easy. On the other hand, please keep me out of this - such branches shall be your own playground as custodians. When you send me a pull request, I always want to pull from the master branch. I don't even want to know if there are any other branches, or how many of them, or what for. So you do the merging, please, not me.
I've added a section describing the use and status of (the) branch(es) in my custodian repository: http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/UBootFdtInfo Now I can simply reply "RTFM" (as if /that/ ever worked ;-).
It works, if you do it.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk