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JDT Core git tips
This page should summarize all tips used by the JDT/Core team to get used to git.
- buildnotes
- in the old workflow I created a patch without updating the build notes, and made that change just before committing
- with git creating a patch requires to commit first, so either
- we always create patches which include the change to the buildnotes, or
- we have to amend a commit just for the buildnotes into the main commit just before pushing to upstream.
- with git creating a patch requires to commit first, so either