From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: bunk@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
harvey.harrison@gmail.com, mchehab@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:31:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080426.173129.232382024.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804261024580.2813@woody.linux-foundation.org>
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:31:36 -0700 (PDT)
> And once you've publicized them, you don't know who has that tree, so just
> from a sanity and debugging standpoint, you should try to avoid mucking
> with already-public versions. If you made a mistake, add a patch on top to
> fix it (and announce the new state), but generally try to not "hide" the
> fact that the state has changed.
I didn't rebase at all this past cycle for networking, and it
helped the people downstream from me _A LOT_.
Anyone who rebases frequently, like I used to, is an idiot, like
me. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-27 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-26 6:14 [BUILDFIX PATCH] au0828: debug is a poor global identifier Harvey Harrison
2008-04-26 11:00 ` If you want me to quit I will quit Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 11:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-26 14:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 17:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 17:35 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 14:51 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-26 15:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 15:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-26 17:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 17:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-26 17:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 17:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-26 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 18:51 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-26 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 19:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-26 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-26 20:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-28 19:05 ` Romano Giannetti
2008-04-26 20:49 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-27 12:07 ` Richard Purdie
2008-04-27 14:28 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-26 19:43 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-27 0:31 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-04-27 2:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-27 16:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 16:21 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-04-26 17:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-26 19:20 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-04-26 19:42 ` Adrian Bunk
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