From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756923AbYA2Llo (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:41:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753285AbYA2Llg (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:41:36 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:44922 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752478AbYA2Llf (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:41:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:41:24 +1100 (EST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@www.l.google.com To: Matthew Wilcox cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Liam Howlett , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Pull request: TASK_KILLABLE In-Reply-To: <20080129000447.GC31101@parisc-linux.org> Message-ID: References: <20080129000447.GC31101@parisc-linux.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > I'd like you to pull the task_killable branch of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git Well, Andrew already pointed out some of this, but I do want more information. There's a "git request-pull" script that even comes with git and that generates a shortlog, a proper url+branch description, and a diffstat of the changes. So that is already much more descriptive, but in addition to that, if this isn't one of the "regular" pulls (which it obviously isn't), I really want a human description too so that I know what I'm pulling and what it's all about. I do *not* want to be in the position of having to fetch first, just to be able to look at what I'm fetching. By the time I pull a branch, I want to basically know (a) what I'm pulling and (b) why I _want_ to pull it. Linus