From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: The merge from hell... Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:21:33 -0500 Message-ID: <20060203162133.GF24201@redhat.com> References: <7vbqxpj6qs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Brown, Len" , Git Mailing List , Paul Mackerras , Marco Costalba , Aneesh Kumar X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 03 17:23:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F53hr-0005zb-3s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:22:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751015AbWBCQWY (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:22:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751168AbWBCQWY (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:22:24 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:19680 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751015AbWBCQWY (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:22:24 -0500 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k13GLcxF005521; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:21:38 -0500 Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.1]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k13GLb113179; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:21:37 -0500 Received: from nwo.kernelslacker.org (vpn83-122.boston.redhat.com [172.16.83.122]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k13GLbbv020301; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:21:37 -0500 Received: from nwo.kernelslacker.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by nwo.kernelslacker.org (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k13GLaQk030335; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:21:36 -0500 Received: (from davej@localhost) by nwo.kernelslacker.org (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id k13GLXsF030262; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:21:33 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: nwo.kernelslacker.org: davej set sender to davej@redhat.com using -f To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vbqxpj6qs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:28:43PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > One thing I'd ask for: would it be possible to have more descriptive > > branch names than just numbers? Even if you want to track it by bugzilla > > entry number, how about calling it "bugzilla-12345" instead? > > When kernel people (not just Len) talk about a "bugzilla ID", > does that ID always come from the same namespace, or do some > subsystems have their own bugzilla? Not only do some subsystems have their own bugtracker (ALSA for eg), but referring to 'bugzilla' alone is meaningless, as it could mean bugme.osdl.org, bugzilla.redhat.com, bugzilla.novell.com, bugzilla.ubuntu.com etc etc, all of which are a prime source of juicy kernel bugs. Dave