Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Distribution kernel bugzillas considered harmful

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Wed, 2018-09-05 at 21:25 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > We do this in SCSI as well, but only if the tree hasn't yet been 
> > submitted to Linus.  The technical term is folding.  It's
> > obviously better to fix buggy commits that haven't gone upstream
> > because it improves bisectability.
> 
> We are drifting away a bit here, but now that you have mentioned it,
> let me add a datapoint to this -- it's actually causing issues to
> our workflow, as we have scsi.git as one of the upstreams [1], and
> when you rebase, it blows up our git workflow and we have to fixup
> things manually.

Describe the issues and we'll try to come up with a fix, but on the
whole you should regard the scsi trees somewhat similarly to linux-
next: it's our proposal for a patch set but we may update it.

> So if you are aware of your tree having downstreams, and care about
> not breaking them and want to be nice to them, you shouldn't rebase
> that tree [2].

Well, I wasn't aware of this one, but I'm sure we can come up with a
functional workflow once I understand what's happening with the
downstream tree.

James


> [1] there are some funny technical details, but in basic principle
> it's exactly like that
> 
> [2] https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/git_rebase.html
> 
> Thanks,
>