Re: [GIT PULL] ASoC updates for v4.15

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:30:14 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 04:54:13PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > BTW, one thing Linus requested in the last KS is to avoid merging to a
> > stub branch when you're managing topic branches.  If any, just smash
> > the rest branches into one of your branches, instead of merging into
> > the upstream point.  Just a reminder for the next time.
> 
> I saw the LWN writeup after Vinod mentioned it but what he seemed to be
> talking about was the practice of doing incremental merges to master
> each time a topic branch is updated and instead requesting that
> everything just get merged down at the end which is what I do.  Unless
> he says something directly I'm going to assume my understanding is
> correct, it's how I send all the stuff I send directly to him so if it
> was bothering him I guess he'd have said something.  I can't see that
> picking a random topic branch is going to be especially helpful either,
> it'd end up being one of the fixes branches as they go first which'd
> quite likely already be in his tree anyway and end up looking like an
> empty branch based off a non-tag which'd probably upset him more.  It's
> also the mechanism I'm using to merge fixes from him so there is stuff
> on there relative to the other branches.
> 
> If it's an actual problem I'm sure he'll say something.

Yeah, that's why I also took your pull request as is at this time.
Let's see :)

My understanding is that it's git-request-pull containing the marginal
stuff that annoys him.  He usually compares the diffstat between the
pull-request and the actual merge result, and it doesn't work when the
pull-request already contains the old commits in itself.


Takashi