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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] um: Cleanup headers files
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:20:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120212212003.GU23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3828BD.7070809@nod.at>

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:01:49PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 12.02.2012 21:27, schrieb Al Viro:
> >>So, I pulled your work and merged it into my shiny new UML tree:
> >>git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml.git
> >
> >Hmm...  I would really, really recommend you to clean the git history in that
> >tree up.  As it is, you have
> >	* merge of that branch from um-headers
> >	* um: Switch to large mcmodel on x86_64
> >	* um: Serve io_remap_pfn_range()
> >	* 205 merges from Linus, from mid-April to late January.
> >	* mismerge from Linus on April 14; the diff between the result
> 
> Okay, I'll create a new tree. This one is definitely screwed.
> Sorry for the inconvenience.

Just create a new branch in the old one, populate it, verify that the
tree is what you want it to be, switch to your regular branch,
git reset --hard <the branch you've just built>, then git push --force
It's not worse than removal of old tree and replacing it with new one,
and it's less work...

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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-25 17:23 [PATCH 1/2] um: Use generic io.h Richard Weinberger
2012-01-25 17:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] um: Serve io_remap_pfn_range() Richard Weinberger
2012-01-30 18:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] um: Use generic io.h Al Viro
2012-01-30 19:10   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-01-30 19:25   ` [uml-devel] " Al Viro
2012-01-30 19:32     ` Al Viro
2012-01-30 19:57       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-03 23:17     ` [PATCH] um: Cleanup headers files Richard Weinberger
2012-02-04  0:14       ` [uml-devel] " Al Viro
2012-02-04  0:26         ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-04  0:44         ` [uml-devel] " Richard Weinberger
2012-02-12 20:27           ` Al Viro
2012-02-12 21:01             ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-12 21:20               ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-02-12 21:26                 ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-12 21:28                   ` [uml-devel] " Al Viro
2012-02-04 14:05         ` Richard Weinberger

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