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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] regulator updates for v3.13-rc1
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:04:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E1AE28.9050007@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxX3odNLBt1L6iAPGybekioqaW3SREmXywd_jnz_tDBeQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/21/2014 11:16 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> If you're OK with octopus merges for things like this I'll definitely
>> take another look at using them, the enormous stack of merge commits
>> always looks noisy to me in the logs and pull requests and for things
>> like driver updates there's unlikely to be much doubt about which branch
>> it was if there's a problem.
> 
> Christ. When you start doing octopus merges, you don't do it by half
> measures, do you?
> 
> I just pulled the sound updates from Takashi, and as a result got your
> merge commit 2cde51fbd0f3. That one has 66 parents.
> 

For sheer amusement value: the tip-bot uses a private git tree to keep
track of what it has mailed and not mailed.  At least once it produced a
243-input octopus merge.

	-hpa



      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-24  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-25 17:40 [GIT PULL] regulator updates for v3.13-rc1 Mark Brown
2013-11-25 21:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-26  0:39   ` Mark Brown
2013-11-26  2:50     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-21 19:16     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-21 20:31       ` Mark Brown
2014-01-23  8:27       ` Takashi Iwai
2014-01-24  0:04       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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