From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763952AbXGVTZP (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:25:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762318AbXGVTY7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:24:59 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:44697 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759983AbXGVTY6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:24:58 -0400 From: Len Brown Organization: Intel Open Source Technology Center To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:24:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200707220535.05527.lenb@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707221524.53177.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 22 July 2007 14:13, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote: > > > > please pull from: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release > > Pulled. > > Btw, on a mostly unrelated note (and to balance the fact that mostly I > only speak up to complain), I'd like to say how much I appreciate that not > only are your git tree histories now clean and readable and don't have > unnecessary merges, but the use of clear "topic branches" really makes it > very pleasant to read and see what changed. > > I'm certainly hoping the topic branches make your life easier too (ie able > to track things by topic rather than having changes mixed up), but even if > it doesn't, I wanted to say that I appreciate how it makes it easier for > outsiders to follow the "big outline" of your development tree. > > So I just wanted to say that I appreciate how it's nice to do "gitk > ORIG_HEAD.." and see the outline of what has been going on in the ACPI > tree after I have pulled. And I'm hoping it actually helps you guys too, > but it's appreciated regardless. > > See? Sometimes I can say nice things too. > > Linus "not _always_ grouchy" Torvalds Wow! -- somebody pinch me!:-) Credit goes to Tony Luck, however. He's the one who took the trouble to figure out and document "maintaining-topic-branches" -- now in git/Documentation/user-manual.txt. That use-model works well for me. thanks, -Len