From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756134AbYDZR2e (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:28:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759452AbYDZR2N (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:28:13 -0400 Received: from smtp6.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.40]:60665 "EHLO smtp6.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759391AbYDZR2M (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:28:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:27:48 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Morton Cc: Harvey Harrison , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: If you want me to quit I will quit Message-ID: <20080426172748.GP2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <1209190455.14173.13.camel@brick> <20080426110044.GB2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080426075132.b0fdbe13.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080426152341.GI2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080426084420.8e61c379.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080426171604.GN2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080426102024.4c65624d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080426102024.4c65624d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:20:24AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:16:04 +0300 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:44:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >... > > > git-tree owners might need, umm, some encouragement here. It's much easier > > > for them to slap the oh-let's-fix-that-up commit at the tail of their > > > queue, which leaves us with the straggly commit record. > > > > As far as I understand Linus on these matters people David Miller > > mustn't edit older commits in their trees once their tree got pushed > > out. > > I expect that means "don't alter stuff after you've sent the pull request". > That'd be fairly dumb. > > But during the two-month -rcX timeframe the patches in the git and quilt > trees get altered, dropped, reordered regularly. Some of the git trees > don't really exist, I believe - their owners assemble them from a > quilt-based master tree for external sharing only. As far as I understand it, changes in Daves tree would cause problems for people like Jeff Garzik and John Linville who themselves base their work on Daves tree during the two-month -rcX timeframe. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed