From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751097AbWFTVPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:15:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751099AbWFTVPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:15:30 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:62361 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751097AbWFTVPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:15:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:15:24 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Stefan Richter Cc: Russell King , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ben Collins , Jody McIntyre , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [git pull] ieee1394 tree for 2.6.18 Message-ID: <20060620211524.GU27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <44954102.3090901@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20060620025552.GO27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20060620175321.GA7463@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <44984CA1.5010308@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20060620193422.GA10748@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <44986126.506@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44986126.506@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:57:10PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Russell King wrote: > >The point was to try to establish when we could consider the tree from > >which we'd asked Linus to pull from as being sufficiently old that it > >would not be pulled from without another request being sent - or if it > >was pulled from, that we wouldn't get an email from Linus about the fact > >there was new stuff in there. > > You could /a/ try to come to an agreement with him about a less brittle > protocol, or /b/ think of your mail as an "announcement" rather than a > "request" (for your peace of mind) and follow up with a repost of the > announcement if you come to know that your updates did not appear in > Linus' tree when the end of a merge window is near. c) no matter how badly your variant of git might suck, on server you can always do echo [commit-ID] > .git/refs/heads/for-linus- and ask him to pull that branch from that server (if your version of git doesn't suck, git checkout -b for-linus-; git checkout will do it). Then move on with the life, using whatever you are using. The question when to remove that file... hell, run "trim the stuff more than month old" from cron every month and forget about it.