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From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] omap fixes for 2.6.33-rc3
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:50:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100108225023.GD2879@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001081430210.7821@localhost.localdomain>

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [100108 14:38]:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > 
> > $ git log --pretty=oneline --author=".(none)" --committer=".(none)" v2.6.33-rc1..
> 
> Well, that will catch one particular common case of it, but..
> 
> > Should we have some check like this in place for all pulls?
> 
> .. it would probably make more sense to warn about it earlier in the 
> chain, so that people with bad configurations can fix them. By the time 
> somebody pulls, it's pretty late in the game.
> 
> Sadly, git doesn't do any real sanity checking, and now it's pretty much 
> too late. It takes about a year or two for new git versions to percolate 
> out, with things like Debian-stable etc, so making git warn about 
> suspicious-looking names is not necessarily going to help (and with 
> scripting and importing from other SCM's, it may be wrong to warn in 
> general).

Yeah..
 
> It's _fairly_ easy to set up a hook at commit-time to check for random 
> thigns, but obviously if the problem is that people haven't configured 
> their git setup, then "add a hook" is not going to work. In that sense, 
> pull-time may be better, as a way to see it automatically after-the-fact.
> 
> Doing a post-merge hook would catch it, and could be used to warn about 
> the fact that you merged something odd.

Hmm, sounds like it might make sense to check for that in Stephen's
for-next tree then. Added Stephen to the loop, let's see if what he
thinks.

Regards,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-08 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-08 18:09 [GIT PULL] omap fixes for 2.6.33-rc3 Tony Lindgren
2010-01-08 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 18:22   ` Tony Lindgren
2010-01-08 22:05     ` Paul Walmsley
2010-01-08 22:27       ` Tony Lindgren
2010-01-08 22:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 22:50           ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2010-01-09  2:47             ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-01-09 17:28               ` Tony Lindgren
2010-01-08 18:20 ` Tony Lindgren

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