From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751760AbcBWJXt (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Feb 2016 04:23:49 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58824 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750919AbcBWJXo (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Feb 2016 04:23:44 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/1] format-patch: add an option to record base tree info To: Fengguang Wu , Junio C Hamano References: <1456109938-8568-1-git-send-email-xiaolong.ye@intel.com> <1456109938-8568-2-git-send-email-xiaolong.ye@intel.com> <20160223014741.GA21025@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com> <20160223091740.GA3830@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com> Cc: Xiaolong Ye , git@vger.kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com, philip.li@intel.com, julie.du@intel.com, Linus Torvalds , "Eric W. Biederman" , Christoph Hellwig , Dan Carpenter , LKML From: "H. Peter Anvin" Message-ID: <56CC2507.7060300@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:23:19 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160223091740.GA3830@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/23/16 01:17, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > However we are facing a new situation: in test robot POV, IMHO there > are values to test exactly the same tree as the patch submitter. > Otherwise the robot risks > > - false negative: failing to apply and test some patches > - false positive: sending wrong bug reports due to guessed wrong base tree > Wouldn't the important part here be the git hash, rather than the tree? If you have the same hash then it by definition is the same contents? -hpa