On 10/30/2012 12:50 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Stephen Warren,
In message 50900FED.6040508@wwwdotorg.org you wrote:
# (in u-boot-tegra.git, assuming everything is merged already) git checkout master git reset --hard u-boot/master
What would this specific command sequence be good for? [And what exactly is "u-boot/master" supposed to be?]
Starting a new branch of development from something in the upstream repository. Here's we're re-using existing branch name "master" for the new branch, hence "git reset" rather than "git checkout -b". Resetting the branch and essentially starting from scratch means creating much less of a rats-nest of merges in downstream repos.
u-boot/master is the standard git nomenclature for remote u-boot (assumed to point at git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git) branch master.