From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751783Ab1AVUzm (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:55:42 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:52528 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738Ab1AVUzk (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:55:40 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:55:35 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Pekka Enberg Cc: "Ted Ts'o" , Daniel Walker , Dima Zavin , Jesse Barnes , Joe Perches , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidb@codeaurora.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support Message-ID: <20110122205535.GD8666@infradead.org> References: <20110121094827.41818a55@jbarnes-desktop> <20110121095658.1ab623fe@jbarnes-desktop> <1295632828.19880.22.camel@m0nster> <20110121100441.06a94482@jbarnes-desktop> <1295633882.19880.31.camel@m0nster> <1295642995.19880.42.camel@m0nster> <20110121234930.GK3043@thunk.org> <1295684398.19231.47.camel@jaguar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1295684398.19231.47.camel@jaguar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:19:58AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Sure, it would have been nicer for everyone involved if Daniel would > have kept the original patches and added new patches to clean it up on > top of that to preserve the history. No, it would be a complete fucking mess that way. We tell people to submit standalone and well formed patches all the time. Why would it make any difference just because they were also commited to a shitty git tree somewhere else?