From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x net driver updates Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 02:25:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4292C8EF.3090307@pobox.com> References: <4292BA66.8070806@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Netdev , Linux Kernel Return-path: To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 24 May 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>Please pull the 'for-linus' branch from >> >>rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git > > > Is this really what you meant to do? There's seven merges there, none of > which have _any_ information about _what_ you merged, because you've mixed > everything up in one tree, so that there's absolutely no record of the > fact that you actually had seven different repositories that you pulled.. > > That sucks, Jeff. > > I don't understand why you don't use different trees, like you did with > BK. You can share the object directory with the different trees, but the > way you work now, it all looks like mush. > > Even if you don't get confused youself, you sure are confusing everybody > else with it.. You are getting precisely the same thing you got under BitKeeper: pull from X, you get my tree, which was composed from $N repositories. The tree you pull was created by my running 'bk pull' locally $N times. Ultimately, you appear to be complaining about: * your own git-pull-script, which doesn't record the $2 (branch) argument in the commit message. * the fact that my changelog includes the merge csets that were present-but-invisible by my BitKeeper submissions. i.e. I lack a shortlog that filters out merge csets. > Anyway, if you really want to work this way, with one big mushed-together > thing that has different heads that you keep track of, can you _please_ at > least make the commit message tell what you're doing. It's not a complex Hey, I didn't write git-pull-script, I just use it :) > script, and you're definitely mis-using it as things stand now by > switching heads around inside one repository, and not telling other people > about it. Switching heads around? It sounds like you did not pull from the branch I mentioned. This is how git-pull-script pulls from a branch: git-pull-script \ rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git\ refs/heads/for-linus Jeff