From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: What's cooking in git/spearce.git (topics) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:12:40 -0400 Message-ID: <20071024001240.GB6404@thunk.org> References: <20071023020044.GA27132@thunk.org> <20071023040522.GX14735@spearce.org> <20071023043321.GC27132@thunk.org> <20071023044657.GC14735@spearce.org> <20071023045632.GD27132@thunk.org> <20071023050726.GD14735@spearce.org> <20071023053003.GE27132@thunk.org> <20071023054238.GE14735@spearce.org> <20071023120338.GG27132@thunk.org> <7vtzoh7j1l.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 24 07:35:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IkYuK-0000U6-0D for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:35:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755020AbXJXFfF (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:35:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754406AbXJXFfF (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:35:05 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:51842 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754349AbXJXFfD (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:35:03 -0400 Received: from root (helo=closure.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtps (tls_cipher TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1IkZ3G-0007Xa-02; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:45:10 -0400 Received: from tytso by closure.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IkTrU-0001fd-VI; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:12:40 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vtzoh7j1l.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:00:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > You can view 'next' as if it is sort of -mm. Following 'master' > is like following Linus tree, whose development is without those > numerous 'merge improvements again' merges into 'next'. Actually -mm is much closer to 'pu', since it can and is rewound all the time. Patches can disappear if they are causing problems, they can be replaced and reworked, etc. - Ted