[Openstack-stable-maint] Squash patch series when backport?

Brant Knudson blk at acm.org
Thu Aug 7 00:30:31 UTC 2014


There seems to be a difference of opinion on whether a patch series should
be squashed or not when it's backported to the stable branch. What's
everyone's opinion on this? Whatever the result is we should update
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StableBranch#Proposing_Fixes .

This might affect some of us more than others because I like to split my
bug fixes into first a patch that shows the bug and then a patch that fixes
it, so I've generally always got 2 patches to backport.

As someone that works on a project that involves backporting changes to
branches that have been abandoned by community it's probably easier to
backport a squashed patch. And the note for the OSSA is going to have fewer
reviews and be less confusing to the non-initiated if there's only 1 commit.

- Brant
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