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authorErik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-lund@collabora.com>2019-01-23 10:34:28 +0100
committerErik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-lund@collabora.com>2019-01-23 18:14:06 +0100
commit5c17c01815399ceac90b269e5ccc271963231db8 (patch)
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parent5a4af871e37a2123c1dc1bad1e8b449862053645 (diff)
docs: add note about sending merge-requests from forks
Sending MRs from the main Mesa repository increase clutter in the repository, and decrease visibility of project-wide branches. So it's better if MRs are sent from forks instead. Let's add a note about this, in case its not obvious to everyone. Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-lund@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
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@@ -258,6 +258,8 @@ your email administrator for this.)
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<li>Make sure your MR is closed if your patches get pushed outside
of GitLab
+ <li>Please send MRs from a personal fork rather than from the main
+ Mesa repository, as it clutters it unnecessarily.
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