From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Walker Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the msm tree with the arm tree Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:05:28 -0700 Message-ID: <1287435928.5588.37.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> References: <20101018103540.7bd9c535.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <201010182219.25890.arnd@arndb.de> <1287434251.5588.23.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <201010182248.36078.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fifo99.com ([67.223.236.141]:36281 "EHLO fifo99.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750806Ab0JRVF7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:05:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201010182248.36078.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Russell King , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Kerr , Jeff Ohlstein On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:48 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 18 October 2010 22:37:31 Daniel Walker wrote: > > > When you know that Russell does not rebase his tree, you can pull his > > > tree into yours whenever a change hits his tree that impacts you in > > > a major way. You shouldn't do this too frequently, but it's a good way > > > to resolve conflicts like this one. > > > > If I did that all of Russell's changesets would get mixed with mine when > > I send the pull request .. That would just create confusion .. It's OK > > if Russell sends my commits to Linus, but I'm not going to send > > Russell's commits. > > Actually both are ok, as long as you as the sub-maintainer send your > pull request after Russell's tree has been merged and you don't > ask anyone else to pull your tree who has not pulled Russell's tree > explicitly or implicitly through Linus. > > git-request-pull is smart enough to list only the changesets that > are not in the upstream tree, as will git "log your-branch...upstream" > or "git diff your-branch upstream". I guess your assuming I send my pull request after Russell's, which isn't necessarily true, and I'd rather not have that dependency if I don't have to. Even with a one time event what your suggesting seems like it would be some what freaky. I wouldn't want to wait around for Russell to get his tree merged before I can get a reasonable log of my own activities (without jumping through hoops). Of course I could do what your suggesting, I just don't think it's the easiest way to fix this. Daniel