From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:20:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080426102024.4c65624d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080426171604.GN2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:16:04 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:44:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >...
> > git-tree owners might need, umm, some encouragement here. It's much easier
> > for them to slap the oh-let's-fix-that-up commit at the tail of their
> > queue, which leaves us with the straggly commit record.
>
> As far as I understand Linus on these matters people David Miller
> mustn't edit older commits in their trees once their tree got pushed
> out.
I expect that means "don't alter stuff after you've sent the pull request".
That'd be fairly dumb.
But during the two-month -rcX timeframe the patches in the git and quilt
trees get altered, dropped, reordered regularly. Some of the git trees
don't really exist, I believe - their owners assemble them from a
quilt-based master tree for external sharing only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-26 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-26 6:14 [BUILDFIX PATCH] au0828: debug is a poor global identifier Harvey Harrison
2008-04-26 11:00 ` If you want me to quit I will quit Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 11:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-26 14:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 17:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 17:35 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 14:51 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-26 15:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 15:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-26 17:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 17:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-04-26 17:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 17:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-26 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 18:51 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-26 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 19:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-26 20:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-28 19:05 ` Romano Giannetti
2008-04-26 20:49 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-27 12:07 ` Richard Purdie
2008-04-27 14:28 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-26 19:43 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-27 0:31 ` David Miller
2008-04-27 2:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-27 16:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 16:21 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-04-26 17:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 19:20 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-04-26 19:42 ` Adrian Bunk
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