From: Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@gmail.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: name the ext4 dev branch
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:30:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260924083040.1744688-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924040030.GB5048@sol>
On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 09:00:30PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Explicitly documenting branches in MAINTAINERS sounds good, but in
> addition to that, HEAD should also be made to point to the correct
> branch (at least in repositories where there is only one main
> development branch). This can be done using gitolite's symbolic-ref
> command
Thanks, that's a better fix where it applies. I'll mention it in the
per-tree patches, so each maintainer can choose between the two.
Matthias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-24 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-23 10:17 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: name the ext4 dev branch Matthias Goergens
2026-09-23 10:44 ` Jan Kara
2026-09-24 3:14 ` Theodore Tso
2026-09-24 3:32 ` Matthias Goergens
2026-09-24 4:00 ` Eric Biggers
2026-09-24 8:30 ` Matthias Goergens [this message]
2026-09-24 8:53 ` Jan Kara
2026-09-25 13:06 ` Niklas Cassel
2026-09-25 18:43 ` Eric Biggers
2026-09-26 6:11 ` Matthias Goergens
2026-09-26 15:57 ` Niklas Cassel
2026-10-01 11:25 ` Matthias Goergens
2026-10-08 15:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
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