Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:20:24 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: If you want me to quit I will quit |
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:16:04 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> 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.
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