Re: RFC: How to I set up a branch of main that I can "publish"?

On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I now have a rather large # of commits authored by Vinicius Ferrao
> >> for NFS-over-RDMA. They are currently in his fork of freebsd-src
> >> on github.com.
> >>
> >> I do have a simpleton mechanism to get them into a local branch
> >> of main, but I do not want to push them to main yet.
> >> (Actually, I'd be happy to push them into main, but I have as yet,
> >> no way of testing them.)
> >>
> >> Is there somewhere I can push this stuff so others can clone it?
> >> (I can push it to a fork I have of freebsd-src on github.com, but
> >> I don't know how to push that to "main"?)
> >>
> >> I'm git clueless, so any suggestions would be appreciated, rick
> >
> >
> > So usually what people do is to create some named branch (nfs-over-rdma).
> > They then push that to a fork of FreeBSD they've setup on their github.
> > They then point people at that branch for testing and collaboration. We
> don't
> > currently allow WIP branches to be pushed either to our source of truth
> repo
> > or our github mirror.
> Ok, I know how to do the above. What I don't know how to do is get that
> into
> main? (When you say "named branch" is that a branch of a github fork
> of freebsd-src
> or a named branch of my local clone of main? If it is the latter, I
> can see how I can
> push it when the time comes, but can I push that to my fork on github?)
>

git rebase -i main nfs-over-rdma
git push freebsd HEAD:main

is the simplest way to do that (assuming the FreeBSD source of truth
upstream is called 'freebsd').

Or is there something more basic I need to help with?

I usually run my branches through Phabricator so I use "git arc stage" to
do much the same thing.

Warner