Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfs-linux: for-next updated to 75bcffbb9e75

[Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 11:31:02 AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 03:16:56PM +0530, Chandan Babu R wrote:
> Hi Chandan,
>
> I'm finding it difficult to determine what has changed from one
> for-next update to the next because there's only a handful of new
> commits being added to this list.
>
> In this case, I think there's only 1 new commit in this update:
>
>>       [75bcffbb9e75] xfs: shrink failure needs to hold AGI buffer
>
> And I only found that out when rebasing my local tree and that patch
> did not apply.
>
> When I was doing these for-next tree updates, I tried to only send
> out the list of commits that changed since the last for-next tree
> update rather than the whole lot since the base kernel it was
> started from. That made it easy for everyone to see what I'd just
> committed, as opposed to trying to find whether their outstanding
> patches were in a big list already committed patches...
>
> Up to you, but I'm bringing it up because I am finding it difficult
> to track when one of my patches has been committed to for-next right
> now...
>

You are right. I didn't realize this problem. I will limit for-next
announcements to include only new patches that were added/removed to/from the
existing pile.

-- 
Chandan