Re: [patch v2 0/4] updated ptrace/core-dump patches for supporting xstate - V2

H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-11T04:18:14Z

On 02/10/2010 07:45 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> We're happy to carry the patches as long as it's okay with you. We were
>> mostly wondering if you preferred any other kind of workflow.
>
> When I write patches myself, I always use git, so it is always easy and
> most convenient for me to have my own branches pulled directly just to
> save on 'git rebase' churn later.
>
> As to a regular workflow of using a well-known branch of mine, I think it
> makes sense for me to maintain a branch if there is an area where things
> are presumptively merged just on my approval and I'm the one who has to be
> lobbied to revert them. I have not heretofore acquired the sensation that
> this was the case with any given area of code.

LOL, okay :)

-hpa

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