Note #2026-08-11-002

Srijan Choudhary Srijan Choudhary

In reply to A quote from David Crawshaw's prompt by Simon Willison’s Weblog

Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the <software> and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works …

Similar to my "fork patch system": https://github.com/srijan/superset/blob/main/docs/patches/PATCH_00-PATCHING-SYSTEM.md

Where a doc is maintained per patch to document the intent of each patch, and those changes can be rebased or (worst-case) re-implemented if upstream changes significantly.

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