From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
steved@redhat.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, aviro@redhat.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com,
nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Permit NFS superblock sharing [try #3]
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 07:25:08 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603060723120.13139@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29932.1141646154@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, David Howells wrote:
>
> > The kernel won't compile with just patch #1 applied. Patches shouldn't go
> > into git in that manner.
>
> It's easier to review them in that manner. If you don't think git is up to it,
> then combine them.
It's not that git isn't up to it, it's that it's unacceptable to have a
series that doesn't compile half-way.
They are NOT easier to review - part of review is whether the damn thing
works or not. If it doesn't compile, it doesn't work.
The "git issue" is that git makes it really really easy to find bugs by
automated means through bisection, and if a series doesn't compile
half-way, that measn that the series cannot be tested half-way and it's
much much harder to say which part of the series actually broke anything.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-06 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-02 21:33 [PATCH 0/5] Permit NFS superblock sharing [try #3] David Howells
2006-03-02 21:33 ` [PATCH 1/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount " David Howells
2006-03-02 21:34 ` [PATCH 2/5] NFS: Apply mount root dentry override to filesystems " David Howells
2006-03-02 21:34 ` [PATCH 3/5] NFS: Abstract out namespace initialisation " David Howells
2006-03-02 21:34 ` [PATCH 4/5] NFS: Add dentry materialisation op " David Howells
2006-03-02 21:34 ` [PATCH 5/5] NFS: Unify NFS superblocks per-protocol per-server " David Howells
2006-03-03 3:22 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-02 22:07 ` [PATCH 0/5] Permit NFS superblock sharing " Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 9:59 ` [PATCH 5/5] NFS: Unify NFS superblocks per-protocol per-server [try #3a] David Howells
2006-03-03 10:49 ` [PATCH 6/5] 9p: Fix error handling on superblock alloc failure David Howells
2006-03-03 11:30 ` [PATCH 7/5] Optimise d_find_alias() David Howells
2006-03-03 11:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 14:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-03 15:46 ` Al Viro
2006-03-03 13:00 ` David Howells
2006-03-03 15:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-03 13:01 ` David Howells
2006-03-03 13:38 ` [PATCH 7/5] Optimise d_find_alias() [try #2] David Howells
2006-03-04 12:16 ` [PATCH 0/5] Permit NFS superblock sharing [try #3] Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 11:55 ` David Howells
2006-03-06 13:57 ` Jörn Engel
2006-03-06 15:25 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-03-06 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount [try #4] David Howells
2006-03-06 14:59 ` [PATCH 1+2/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount [try #5] David Howells
2006-03-07 11:08 ` [PATCH] Fix multiple blockdev-based filesystem mounts David Howells
2006-03-07 11:35 ` Alexander Viro
2006-03-07 13:23 ` David Howells
2006-05-23 16:53 ` [PATCH 0/5] Permit NFS superblock sharing [try #3] David Howells
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