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PR-URL: nodejs#22879
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
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## How to submit a backport pull request

For the following steps, let's assume that a backport is needed for the v6.x
release line. All commands will use the `v6.x-staging` branch as the target
For the following steps, let's assume that a backport is needed for the v8.x
release line. All commands will use the `v8.x-staging` branch as the target
branch. In order to submit a backport pull request to another branch, simply
replace that with the staging branch for the targeted release line.

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# the origin remote points to your fork, and the upstream remote points
# to git://github.com/nodejs/node
cd $NODE_DIR
# If v6.x-staging is checked out `pull` should be used instead of `fetch`
git fetch upstream v6.x-staging:v6.x-staging -f
# If v8.x-staging is checked out `pull` should be used instead of `fetch`
git fetch upstream v8.x-staging:v8.x-staging -f
# Assume we want to backport PR #10157
git checkout -b backport-10157-to-v6.x v6.x-staging
git checkout -b backport-10157-to-v8.x v8.x-staging
# Ensure there are no test artifacts from previous builds
# Note that this command deletes all files and directories
# not under revision control below the ./test directory.
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7. Make sure `make -j4 test` passes.
8. Push the changes to your fork
9. Open a pull request:
1. Be sure to target the `v6.x-staging` branch in the pull request.
1. Be sure to target the `v8.x-staging` branch in the pull request.
2. Include the backport target in the pull request title in the following
format — `[v6.x backport] <commit title>`.
Example: `[v6.x backport] process: improve performance of nextTick`
format — `[v8.x backport] <commit title>`.
Example: `[v8.x backport] process: improve performance of nextTick`
3. Check the checkbox labeled "Allow edits from maintainers".
4. In the description add a reference to the original PR
5. Run a [`node-test-pull-request`][] CI job (with `REBASE_ONTO` set to the
default `<pr base branch>`)
10. If during the review process conflicts arise, use the following to rebase:
`git pull --rebase upstream v6.x-staging`
`git pull --rebase upstream v8.x-staging`

After the PR lands replace the `backport-requested-v6.x` label on the original
PR with `backported-to-v6.x`.
After the PR lands replace the `backport-requested-v8.x` label on the original
PR with `backported-to-v8.x`.

[Release Schedule]: https://github.com/nodejs/Release#release-schedule1
[Release Plan]: https://github.com/nodejs/Release#release-plan
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