Re: Please pull logfs tree

["Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>]

On Sat, 6 March 2010 13:26:46 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > 
> > 1) pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs.git
> > and apply the patch at the bottom yourself.
> 
> Not quite - it needs to be applied while merging, rather than applied 
> separately. It's a conflict, even though it's not a data-conflict, but a 
> semantic one.
> 
> But that's trivial enough. "git pull --no-commit" + fixup + "git commit" 
> is trivially done, now that I was fore-warned. Thanks.
> 
> > 2) pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs_for_2.6.34
> > A tree with the patch applied that won't work standalone but will work
> > after being pulled into your tree (tested locally).
> 
> No, that's horrible. Unbisectable. Not that anybody probably cares in this 
> case, but it's fundamentally wrong to merge something that doesn't work 
> before the merge.
> 
> > 3) pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs_for_2.6.34_alternative
> > A tree that merged your tree and the logfs tree, then has the patch
> > applied.  Works standalone but has an additional merge commit.
> 
> That's ok, but I already did the trivial merge, which actually had another 
> conflict too (which showed up as a real data conflict on the Kconfig 
> file).

Ok, learned something new again.  Thank you for doing the trivial merge
that would have taken me days to figure out. :)

Jörn

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