From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: git-pull-request for omap2-upstream branch for next merge window (Was: [PATCH 00/16] Omap2 patches for post 2.6.26) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:21:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20080902222130.GF23085@atomide.com> References: <20080819212300.GF17034@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20080820072310.GA28862@atomide.com> <20080823233711.GM4713@atomide.com> <20080826080616.GC24147@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20080826162630.GA17304@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20080826184953.GB17304@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-01-bos.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.178]:63602 "EHLO mho-01-bos.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751633AbYIBWVm (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 18:21:42 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080826184953.GB17304@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Nicolas Pitre , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk * Russell King - ARM Linux [080826 11:50]: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 02:28:14PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > > That's not all black or white. Many people have branches which are > > > rebased all the time, especially when those branches are made up of > > > other evolving branches. I Think this is the case of your devel branch > > > which sounds pretty fine to me. As long as the volatile nature of such > > > branch is clearly advertised and people are told not to base their own > > > work on of course, and I think you did so many times now. > > > > And I've just seen the commit message of the top commit in the devel > > branch. :-) If that is not effective then I don't know what might be. > > Well, the theory is that it'll appear in any pull requests generated > by git-request-pull, and of course everyone reads the output of that > command before they mail it, don't they? ;) Heh, I'll rebase on top of the earlier pull. Tony