Update - no wine repo on github

[Misha Koshelev]

On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 14:50 -0400, Mike Kaplinskiy wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Misha Koshelev <misha680 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Misha Koshelev <misha680 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Thank you so much for the info. I will probably just keep the Zip file for
> >> now but if the number of patches gets out of hand will try git again :-)
> >> Thanks again
> >>
> >> Misha
> >>
> >> On Jul 6, 2010 12:18 PM, "Mike Kaplinskiy" <mike.kaplinskiy at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Misha Koshelev <misha680 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Fyi I am just going to...
> >>
> >> It shouldn't be too hard. Something like the below might work.
> >>
> >> git rebase -i upstream/master # delete anything you like. Or put edit
> >> instead of pick to edit it
> >> git push -f origin master # forces a push even though your tree is not
> >> at the HEAD of origin
> >>
> >> This breaks git history and can make people forking/pulling your tree
> >> angry but assuming you don't care about them, all is well :).
> >>
> >> Mike.
> >>
> >
> > On second thought, your method works quite well. Maybe I will keep a
> > github repo - I still need one bit of advice though before I ditch my
> > scripts...
> >
> > is there a good way to get rid of trailing whitespace, ideally when
> > making a git commit -a -n ?
> >
> > It seems like an annoying problem that should be easily solvable...
> >
> > Thank you
> > Misha
> >
> 
> There's a bunch of ways to fix whitespace. They all involve putting
> --whitespace=fix or something like that in the command line. The only
> one I've ever used is
> 
> git rebase --whitespace=fix upstream/master
> 
> It fixes whitespace on all the commits that you've made. I think it's
> pretty good about merge conflicts due to whitespace as well. I don't
> know of a way of doing this at commit time though.
> 
> On another git note, if you do git pull/(git fetch; git merge) to
> merge with upstream it might look nasty (merge commits). I think (git
> fetch; git rebase) might work better. Someone should correct me if I'm
> wrong, I'm no git wizard.
> 
> Mike.

Wow thanks that's pretty neat.

I'll have to test upstream merging later. Github seems not to have
pulled in the latest Wine commits yet. :(

I'm reading here:
http://help.github.com/forking/

and they recommend:
$ git fetch upstream
$ git merge upstream/master

I will try this. Thanks.

Misha