Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Sep 2005 23:36:37 +0200 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.13-mm1 |
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On 9/4/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm wondering if it would be too much trouble to have a mm-drops list > > similar to the mm-commits list. > > Well I was sending drop messages to mm-commits, but lots of people went > "Waah, why did you drop my patch?". A few hours after they'd been cc'ed as > the patch went in to Linus! So then I was asked to include an explanation > with the drop message and that all got too hard so I turned them off. >
If patches dropped due to being merged in mainline were then commented with a simple "merged in mainline" note, surely that would keep the "Waah .." mails out of your mailbox. :-)
> <turns them back on again> > > > I also like to keep track of what patches of mine get accepted and > > subsequently dropped. > > As I say, the way to do this is via your quilt series file. > Hmm, I've been looking at quilt, but never really got to the point of actually starting to use it - guess I should get started on that.
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