[External] : Re: pure_wl_toolkit branch at OpenJDK

[Kevin Rushforth]

jdk:master /is/ JDK 21, so I don't understand what you mean.

-- Kevin


On 3/20/2023 6:07 AM, Maxim Kartashev wrote:
> > Unless there is a strong need for a rebase, I recommend doing a merge
> from jdk:master rather than a rebase.
>
> That's understandable in general, but in this particular case we would 
> like to
> - rebase on top of OpenJDK 21, not master,
> - rewrite older commits as those turned out to be too rough for 
> publication, which somewhat nullifies the benefits of merge vs rebase.
>
> Neither of those things is absolutely necessary. We can also have 
> another branch for active development and leave pure_wl_toolkit for 
> periodic synchronization, which, judging from experience, will 
> significantly lag.
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 4:54 PM Kevin Rushforth 
> <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>     Unless there is a strong need for a rebase, I recommend doing a merge
>     from jdk:master rather than a rebase.
>
>     -- Kevin
>
>
>     On 3/20/2023 1:18 AM, Maxim Kartashev wrote:
>     > To whom it may concern:
>     > In a week or so we would like to rebase the Wakefield project
>     > development branch (pure_wl_toolkit, [1]) on top of OpenJDK 21 and
>     > clean up Wakefield-related commits history. That will be a breaking
>     > change in the sense that you won't be able to simply
>     fast-forward your
>     > changes on top of pure_wl_toolkit after that and will have to do a
>     > manual merge.
>     >
>     > If this action somehow affects your work, please reply to this
>     email
>     > so we can work out a solution.
>     >
>     > Thank you,
>     >
>     > Maxim.
>     >
>     > [1] https://github.com/openjdk/wakefield/tree/pure_wl_toolkit
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